THE CATHEDRAL OF NEW EMOTIONS (2006)
On a shortlist with Eiichi Yamamoto’s BELLADONNA OF SADNESS and René Laloux’s FANTASTIC PLANET as one of the most surreal, psychedelic and truly cosmic animated features ever made, German director Helmut Herbst’s utterly insane THE CATHEDRAL OF NEW EMOTIONS follows a commune of Berlin stoners and intellectuals who get set adrift in space in 1972 in a packing container clutched in a giant flying hand.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- “Container Interstellar” (2001, 7 min.) – director Helmut Herbst’s animated sci-fi short with characters that would be more fully explored in CATHEDRAL OF NEW EMOTIONS, newly scanned for this release
- “Werkinterview Filmkunst: Helmut Herbst” (2013, 25 min., dir. Anja Ellenberger) – fascinating short documentary featuring interviews with Herbst and clips from his acclaimed experimental films, made for nonprofit German arts TV and newly translated for this release. (Courtesy of TIDE TV)
- New commentary by film historian Rolf Giesen
- New video essay by experimental filmmaker and film scholar Stephen Broomer
- Blu-ray authoring by David Mackenzie of Fidelity In Motion
- New art by Beth Morris
