This film movement originated in Germany after the First World War. The events of the war were manifested in cinema through the Horror genre. Films were used to express inner thoughts and emotions, usually dealing with dark themes of insanity and death. Stories were often set in a constructed reality, a world of deformity, an external world which expressed the internal one. Distortion was created through extreme contrast in lighting that created big shadows, asymmetrical camera angles, presence of reflective surfaces (mirrors, glass etc.) and unusual shapes and lines in the set design.
Some of the most notable German expressionist films are: Faust (1926), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1926), Metropolis (1927), M (1931).
We filmed a German Expressionism-inspired scene .
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