German Expressionism And the Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari : Uniqlo Artspeaks

Ashley Swinnerton, collection specialist in the Department of Film, meets in the theater for a screening of Robert Wiene’s expressionist masterpiece "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1920), a film so wildly inventive that certain shots are, as she puts it, “burned into the retinas forever.”

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