Leni Riefenstahl: a video essay

FEB 26 2020

A student documentary essay on Riefenstahl's career, centred on Triumph of the Will and Olympia and on her lifelong insistence that she was only an artist. The essay treats that defence as the thing to be examined: the aesthetic choices she claimed were apolitical are exactly what gave the regime its images. A useful case in how authorship and complicity are argued about.