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film and video by karl-rainer blumenthal

 

 

Karl-Rainer Blumenthal is an MFA candidate at Temple University studying Film & Media Arts. In 2006, he completed his undergraduate thesis, Of Gods and Grizzlies: The Non-Aesthetic of Nature and the New Kinship of Werner Herzog and Caspar David Friedrich, and earned his bachelors degree in History of Art from Haverford College.  As a student and later Digital Archivist at Haverford, Karl began making short films which experiment with concepts of history, historiography and narratization across digital media.  A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Karl continues to work as a freelance video editor for local musical acts and as a consultant for Progressive Strategies' OpenLeft.com.