Comfort Film Presents
Silent Films and Loud Music
Shattered (Scherben) 1921
With a live music score by
Mauricio López F.
and
In Partnership with the Goethe Institut

Shattered (Scherben) 1921
Plot: Set during the winter, the story tells the tale of a track checker and his family who live a poverty-stricken life next to a railway line. They receive a telegram announcing the arrival of the section inspector, who is to live with the family.

Directed by Lupu Pick
Starring Werner Krauss, Edith Posca
Runtime 50 minutes
Media: Digital Projection.
Free
Screening will be outside on the lawn Weather Permitting.

About Mauricio López F.
Mauricio López F. is an artist from Santiago de Chile based in Chicago, USA. He studied Musical Composition at the Escuela Moderna de Música. He later participated in the Copiú: Improvement Course in Composition and Interpretation of Contemporary Music and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Aesthetics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica, focusing on avant-garde movements in the Chilean sound scene.

Recently, he completed his MFA in Sound at SAIC, where he received a complete scholarship. He is currently exploring various mediums, including sculpture, installation, performance, photography, and drawing. His works, which address themes such as translation, labor, and cultural friction, have been presented across South and North America and Europe, recently highlighting the 30th anniversary of the SAIC Site Gallery and Expo Chicago. As part of his current practice in Chicago, he is an artist-in-residence at the Chicago Artists Coalition.
mauriciolopezf.com

About the Goethe Institut
Communicating with the world.
For diversity, understanding and trust.
We connect people all over the world. As a cultural institution of the Federal Republic of Germany, we promote cultural exchange, education and societal discourse in an international context, and support the teaching and learning of the German language. Together with our partners, we focus on global opportunities and challenges, bringing different perspectives into a dialogue that is based in trust. We regard the ability to listen and to reflect as the key to understanding. We are bound by principles of transparency, diversity and sustainability. These principles characterise our services and our way of working.
goethe.de/en/uun.html

Programmed for Comfort Station by Raul Benitez, Emily Perez, Luna Lux and Mat Tapey.