Henry Fonda for President
Alexander Horwath, AT/DE 2024Screenplay: Alexander Horwath; Cinematography, Editing: Michael Palm; Artistic collaboration: Regina Schlagnitweit. DCP, color/bw, 184 min. German/English with English & German subtitles
After its world premiere at the Berlinale and Austrian premiere at the Viennale, we are pleased to present the Film Museum premiere of Alexander Horwath's directorial debut. A work of art not for the museum, but in the spirit of the museum: The United States seen through the lens of a movie actor's experiences. In Horwath's stirring essay film, Henry Fonda and his roles merge into a single, conflict-laden figure articulating the old and new America. A reserved man who understood himself as a "void" becomes the face of a purported passage from the law of the jungle to civilization. Brilliantly edited, the film is also a kind of road trip through film history in an imaginary cartography of places, times, and characters from the "United States of Fonda." Stefan Grissemann: "Driven by an irrepressible delight in association: a centrifuge of political-cultural knowledge as well as an illustration of the idea that everything, if you just look closely enough, is connected to everything." (M.L.)
With Alexander Horwath in attendance
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