Lost Horizon

1937, USA, Frank Capra, 132 min.

Introduced by Soundwalk Collective founder Stephan Crasneanscki

Frank Capra’s Lost Horizon is a visual tour de force and perhaps the ultimate utopian fantasy of the West’s preoccupation with the Himalayas.

When Robert Conway (Ronald Colman), a diplomat stationed in China, attempts to rescue a group of Westerners, his plane is hijacked and crashes in the Himalayan mountains near the magical valley of Shangri-La. As he learns more about the remarkable inhabitants of the valley, Conway discovers that the plane crash may not have been an accident.

“An artistic achievement of the first order and a triumph for Frank Capra.” —The Hollywood Reporter

About the Speaker

Stephan Crasneansck is the founder of the Soundwalk Collective, an international art and genre-bending music group based in New York City and Berlin. The Soundwalk Collective creates concept albums, sound installations, and live performances. It combines nature, anthropology, ethnography, non-linear narratives, psychogeography, and the exploration of recording and synthesis in its productions. Soundwalk Collective’s works have featured collaborations with Berghain, Nan Goldin, Jean-Luc Godard, and Patti Smith, and its installations and performances have been shown at Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), CTM Festival (Berlin), KW Institute of Contemporary Art (Berlin), and several other venues.