Deborah Caulfield reviews Throw Them up and Let Them Sing
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Tucked away in little room at the far end of the Festival of the World Museum, this film, by artist filmmaker Helen Petts, explores the later years of Kurt Schwitters’ life and work, following the German artist’s journey to Ambleside in the Lake District where Schwitters escaped Nazi persecution because of his ‘degenerate’ arts and his epilepsy. With no commentary and no subtitles, no words whatsoever, this beautiful film is a collage in pictures and sound. Scenes...