Best of the Week

I thought that the "Best of the Week" was the movies by Leni Riefenstahl because we watched two contrasting works by her, which displayed her. The first one, which was the divers from the olympics, showed elegance. She also used different video editing techniques such as shooting from different angles and slowing it down at certain points. The second one started out elegant and displayed beautiful parts of Germany. Then it began to showcase Hitler and his power of the Nazi party. She shot from many strategic angles in this film to highlight the mass amount of people in the convention center. It also led to the class discussion of what is art and is racist idea's are considered art. I thought that was interesting as well because  our class got into some philosophy. I wouldn't Leni Riefenstahl's work art because it is more propaganda. Some propaganda can be considered art if it is a poster or something. But since it was more of a documentary I wouldn't consider her work art.