Explore Richard Wagner's concept of “Gesamtkunstwerk” — A Total Work of Art — as we examine how cinema embodies this idea by integrating a variety of disciplines: photography, performance, writing, composition, lighting, sound design, direction, painting, and sculpture.

Featured Films:

Apocalypse Now, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola

8 ½, written by Fredrico Fellini

Andrei Rublev, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky