388: Riefenstahl

Archival Spaces 388: Riefenstahl (2024) – The Movie Uploaded 12 December 2025 The penultimate scene in Andres Veiel’s new documentary, Riefenstahl (2024), which opened recently in Los Angeles, shows footage that producer Sandra Maischberger possibly shot in ca. 2002, when Leni Riefenstahl was over 100 years old. In close-up, the Nazi diva frets fussily inContinue reading “388: Riefenstahl”

352: Riefenstahl

Archival Spaces 352 Meeting Leni Riefenstahl Uploaded 26 July 2024 In March 1976, Robert Doherty, the Director of George Eastman Museum asked me to travel to New York to meet with Leni Riefenstahl, the infamous film director of Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia, Parts I and II (1938). At the time, Riefenstahl hadContinue reading “352: Riefenstahl”