Browse Films

A captivating portrait of Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach, two pioneering artists who met in Berlin in 1929 and started the “ringl + pit” studio to do advertising photography.  Full of humor and vitality at 88 and 86 years old, they reflect on their work, their lifelong friendship, and what being a “New Woman” was like during those times.  “Ringl and Pit” traces their lives from their early days in Weimar Germany, to their escape from the Nazis and subsequent separate careers in London and Palestine, New York and Argentina.

The documentary ''Ringl and Pit,'' completed in 1995 by Juan Mandelbaum, has been quietly attracting attention and praise, largely through an international network of screenings in museums and festivals. Tonight it can be seen on WNET. There's no reason to be quiet anymore.
John J. O'Connor
The New York Times

"What we did here is now admired as the forerunners of something," says Ellen Auerbach with an edge of skepticism. "First of all, while you are running you don't know that you are running fore." ... The off-kilter, satiric sensibility of Ringl and Pit has been dusted off and dubbed exceedingly cool.
Betsy Sherman
The Boston Globe

An excellent resource that would charm and inform photography students and other viewers, from upper secondary school levels through the most sophisticated adult viewer.
School Arts

AWARDS & SCREENINGS:

• Gold Cindy, Intl. Assoc. of Audio Visual Communicators

• CINE Golden Eagle

• Biographical Video Award, Athens International Film Festival

• Biographical Video Award, Long Island Film Festival

• Silver Apple, National Educational Media Competition

• Broadcast on WNET-New York (PBS)

• Museum of Modern Art - New York

• Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.

• 5th Intl. Art Film Biennale, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

• Berlin International Jewish Film Festival