#289: Dreyer, Day of Wrath and Gertrud
Peter Aurdal-Lawrence from Cambridge University has been conducting research in the Dreyer Archive, resulting in two new articles: one on Dreyer’s final and most demanding film, Gertrud (1964), and another on his most accessible work, Day of Wrath (1943). Together, the two articles provide a vivid impression of the breadth of Dreyer’s oeuvre – ranging from the immediately gripping to the intellectually challenging.
In Aesthetics and Politics in Carl Th. Dreyer’s Day of Wrath, Aurdal-Lawrence primarily explores Dreyer’s allegory of the church’s tyranny during the Inquisition:
The article on Gertrud, Deciphering Dreyer: Props and Symbols in Gertrud, focuses on Dreyer’s use of symbolic objects and the meanings they generate:
Enjoy your read!