Werner Graeff

Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.

Conceived in 1922, conceptual design published in "De Stijl Nr. 5" (1923), but not realised until 1959.

Conceived in 1922, but not realised until 1977.

Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.

A day at the carnival — sensational tent shows where miracles can be seen for the price of admission, boisterous noise of crowds and barkers, shrill and gaudy circus music, the violence of the street ten-fold. This is the substance of Everything Turns, Richter’s first sound film. At its premier at Baden-Baden Richter got into a fight with two Nazi officials who disliked the film's ‘modernism.’ Yet in 1936 it was awarded first prize for artistic merit by the Nazis, with Richter’s name suppressed from the credits. He had long since left Germany.