Weekend (Wochenende)

Ruttmann’s brief audiomontage, recorded 1930, remains one of the most outstanding experiments in sound ever made. A ‘film without film,’ Weekend was originally conceived to explore the potential of emerging sound-on-film technology. The story of a weekend in Berlin, presented on imageless film: a symphony of sound, speech-fragments and silence, perfected by cutting and mixing. A purely acoustical film…