Leni's Life

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

> ""less vacuous than that of Spielberg?" - difficult, difficult indeed.
> But maybe less cynical. Remembering a long Riefenstahl documentary,
> what comes to mind is her total inability to think of herself and her
> work in abstract terms, to even imagine what a 'fascist aesthetic' might
> be, to just function on a totally unconscious level, not self-aware at all."

Don Larson replies:
  
> Which may be just what Leni wants us to think. 
[...]

There's always that, sure - but having lived all my life in South Africa, 
I tend not to ascribe too much ingenuity to such artists (the term 'artist' 
is concession enough).

hg
hag at iafrica.com