The work of production designers, set decorators and film architects results in spaces that allow interplay between the camera and the performers, influence the action and create the cinematic atmosphere. “Moving Spaces: Production Design + Film” is divided into conceptual areas entitled “Labyrinths,” “Private Spaces,” “Transit Spaces,” “Spaces of Power” and “Stages.” These areas group films that have faced similar production design challenges, and illustrate the solutions arrived at by their various designers.

Organized by the Berlin Film Museum, and originally presented as part of the 2005 Berlin Film Festival, the exhibition has an equal emphasis on American and European film production. It is a dynamic installation of video clips, documents, photographs, production designs, and set models that illustrate this essential role that production design plays in the making of a film.

Over 120 designs and drawings by 28 prominent production designers are complemented by video clips from 26 films, and filmed interviews with such filmmakers as Ken Adam, Anna Asp, Dante Ferretti, Steven Spielberg with Alex McDowell, and Jacques Saulnier with Volker Schlondorff. Films from the teens to the present are represented, including The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919), The Blue Angel (1933), Design for Living (1933), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), The Apartment (1960), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), Playtime (1967), Alien (1979), Fanny and Alexander (1982), Wings of Desire (1987), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989), The Cat in the Hat (2003), and The Terminal (2004).

Don't miss your chance to see this exhibition, which is making its only American stop at the Academy on a multi-city international tour. Generous support for this exhibition has been provided by the Goethe Institut – Los Angeles and Lufthansa Cargo.

For additional information about Moving Spaces, please visit http://www.moving-spaces.de/.