The Department of Art History and Archaeology and the Department of Germanic Languages invite you to a talk with the Berlin-based film director Andres Veiel about his recent documentary Riefenstahl (2024), focusing on Leni Riefenstahl’s photographic campaign in the southern part of Sudan and her 1973 book Die Nuba (published a year later in the USA by Harper & Row as The Last of the Nuba). Whereas her photobooks on the Nuba, beginning with The Last of the Nuba, have garnered a good deal of critical attention from Susan Sontag and others, her film footage has been hitherto unexamined.
The talk with the director Andres Veiel will take place on February 12th, 6:00 pm at Columbia University’s Deutsches Haus, 420 W 116th Street. The talk, moderated by Professor Avinoam Shalem (Arts of Islam) together with Professor Zoë Strother (Arts of Africa) as discussant, will be followed by a reception. Registration is required to attend this event at https://tinyurl.com/riefenstahltalkwithdirector
A screening of the film Riefenstahl will be held the week before the talk, on February 5th, 5:00 pm at 612 Schermerhorn Hall. If you would like to attend this screening, please register at https://tinyurl.com/riefenstahlfilmscreening before February 1st, 11:59 pm. Please note that this screening will take place on the Columbia University Morningside Heights campus, for which you will need to register to gain access if you are not an affiliate. Upon registration, expect a QR code in your email about a day before the screening that will provide you access to the campus.
We look forward to seeing and welcoming you at these events.
