[New York, NY]

Mikhail Kuzmin's "New Hull" + Fritz Lang's "Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler"
June 18, 2023, 3:00 pm
at Anthology Film Archives

One hundred years after its publication, “New Hull”, a 12-part poem cycle dedicated to the first part of Fritz Lang’s DR. MABUSE series, DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (1922), has been translated for the first time. This special event will help launch the chapbook by Russia’s preeminent gay and proud poet Mikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936). To celebrate the centenary of the film and the poem it inspired, DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER will screen in a gorgeous new 4K restoration. During the intermission between the two parts of Lang’s film, translator Simona Schneider will read from the poem-cycle and discuss the “queer lens” the poem provides onto this modernist masterpiece, Kuzmin’s melancholy optimism, and how it resonates today. How does the poem change our way of watching the film and the meaning of Mabuse’s infamous glare?

Tickets available here.