It’s quite telling that Katja Raganelli chose the animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger as her gateway figure into German cinema’s past. Like Alice Guy-Blaché, she was prolific, and worked in all kinds of formats, including commercials and animated interludes for fiction features. More than Guy-Blaché, though, she was an inventor of forms and techniques whose genius was admired by the likes of Bertolt Brecht. It says a lot about film history that Reiniger remains still a specialists’ darling…
Katja Raganelli
Director, Writer
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Cameraperson67%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Love, Marilyn66%
Heart of a Dog65%
Maidentrip70%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Being James Bond77%
Directed by John Ford70%
180° South72%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds75%
I Am Ali67%
Katy Perry: Part of Me71%
To Be Takei71%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
The Class of ‘9271%
