Abstract film
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Abstract film is a subgenre of experimental film. Its history often overlaps with the concerns and history of visual music. The earliest abstract motion pictures known to survive are those produced by a group of German artists working in the early 1920s: Walter Ruttmann, Hans Richter (artist), Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger. These artists present two different approaches to abstraction-in-motion: as an analogue to music (Ruttmann, Fischinger) or as the creation of an absolute language of form, a desire common to early abstract art.
The history of abstract film is highly contested, with various groups of artists and their supporting critics/historians fighting over which artists to include and which to exclude from its development.
See also
References
- Malcolm Le Grice, Abstract Film and Beyond. [MIT Press, 1981]
- William Moritz, Optical Poetry. [Indiana University Press, 2004]
- William Wees, Light Moving in Time. [University of California Press, 1992]
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