Our Heavenly Bodies (with Live Music Accompaniment)

Name: Our Heavenly Bodies (with Live Music Accompaniment) — Dir. Hanns Walter Kornblum
Start: 2025-11-07T18:00:00+00:00
Location: Howard Assembly Room

Dir. Hanns Walter Kornblum

LIFF Spotlights - SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Fri 7 Nov - 18:00

Howard Assembly Room, Leeds

Main Auditorium

Past event

Fri 7 Nov

18:00

Past event

Our Heavenly Bodies is an extraordinary German proto-documentary made in 1925 that harnesses the wonder of early cinema to explore no less than everything that was known about the universe at the time.

15 special effects experts and 9 cameramen were employed utilising innovative new animation techniques, historical documents and fictional re-enactments, prefiguring Carl Sagan, Brian Cox and Stanley Kubrick. Screening with live accompaniment by acclaimed pianist and keyboard player Matthew Bourne.

"Kornblum's film is a technical marvel, one that revels in the beauty and mysteries of the universe." — Science on Screen

Director Hanns Walter Kornblum
Running time 70 mins
Production year 1920
Country Germany, Chile
Language
Courtesy of Filmmuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum

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LIFF Spotlights - Special Screenings

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