Peter Weiss
Birthday: 1916-11-08
Place of Birth: Nowawes, Berlin, Germany
Biography: Peter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel "The Aesthetics of Resistance".
Movies
Study II: Hallucinations
Twelve staged scenes that were modelled after a set of drawings. Accompanied by metallic sounds, var...
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The Flamboyant Sex
24 hours in the life of three Swedish girls in Paris. Seduced by the excitement but short of money t...
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Memorandum
A Jewish Holocaust survivor travels through Germany recalling scenes from his memory. This document...
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Strange Walks In and Through and Out
A personal portrayal of Peter Weiss’ period as a painter and filmmaker in Sweden before his rise to ...
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Study I Awakening
The day begins for an avant-garde artist. We see him waking up amid empty bottles, easels, and silk ...
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Study III
In this preliminary study for Study IV “Liberation” a man hauls his alter ego through various spaces...
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