Color Test: The Red Flag

Color Test: The Red Flag

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 31, 1968

Runtime

0h 12m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Farbtest - Die rote Fahne

Production Companies

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)

Director

Gerd Conradt

Description

Gerd Conradt films men carrying a red flag in a relay race through Berlin, to hoist it on the balcony of the current Mayor’s seat. A cinematic experiment based on Eadweard Muybridge, Andy Warhol and New American Cinema. A study in men, movements and a symbol. This is the 7th part of this series of film exercises. The other 6 parts were staged by Harun Farocki (Part 1), Carlos Bustamante (Part 2), Helke Sander (Part 3), Holger Meins (Part 4), Wolfgang Petersen (Part 5), Philip Werner Sauber (Part 6).