The orphic 'fleeting glimpse' in some of its remediations

Bär, Gerald

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Bär, Gerald

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The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice was revitalized and perpetuated during the first decades of the twentieth century in literature and other arts. Influenced by literature, painting and music, cinema has retold and re-enacted this myth in many variations, from Destiny (Lang, 1921) to Cocteau’s Orphic trilogy (1930-60). Revisiting the Orphic ‘fleeting glimpse’ in some of its modernist re-mediations and comparing its pictorial and cinematographic expression will provide further insight into its adaptations and transformations and into the technology involved in these processes. The present investigation focuses on the technical reproducibility of the invisible and analyses its pictorial, poetic and cinematographic expression in the cultural exchange between Rodin, Rilke and Cocteau.