Kniehofstrasse (1973), Drinnen Und Draussen (Inside And Outside) (1974), Illusive Crime (1976). - Richard Woolley.

These three individualistic, thematically diverse examples of independent avant gardist filmmaker, Richard Woolley provide a fascinating entre into his singular mise-en-scène. Refreshingly unconventional, thought-provoking, and thoroughly unique, seen today in the ever more stifling hegemony of corporate filmmaking uniformity, Woolley's engaging iconoclasm makes for altogether bracing agitprop cinema! 

Imaginative, humane and politically perceptive works, with his elegiac gender/class inequality piece 'Illusive Crime' having an unsettling, haunting quality. Minimalist, and beautifully photographed, a vibrant work of auteurist cinema, the themes of mass media duplicity, and oppressive capitalist regimes, sadly, remaining disturbingly relevant. Woolley's aggressively experimental B/W Berlin pieces are structuralist, didactic, and non-narrative, while I occasionally found them somewhat obscure, they remained bizarrely compelling, but, they might appear to be frustratingly nebulous to others. I appreciated the intellectual heft of 'Illusive Crime' drawing deserved attention to the innately voyeuristic nature of cinema, questioning the dubious morality of the media's blithe exploitation of women.