Panoramas of War
The end of the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) saw the birth of the panoramas of war, huge circular paintings depicting scenes of war, cruelty and desolation that were contemplated by thousands of spectators, a kind of inmersive static newsreels, a mass media prior to the era of mass media, a virtual reality on canvas.
Cast
Florian Wormser
Self - Narrator (voice)
Yadegar Asisi
Self - Artist
Adrien Moser
Self - Art Collector
Dominik Bartmann
Self - Art Historian
Jean-Pierre Klein
Self - Researcher
François Robichon
Self - Art Historian
Storyline
The end of the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) saw the birth of the panoramas of war, huge circular paintings depicting scenes of war, cruelty and desolation that were contemplated by thousands of spectators, a kind of inmersive static newsreels, a mass media prior to the era of mass media, a virtual reality on canvas.
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