Abstract film biography, high resolution photos and videos by Americola 
Abstract film
[edit] Americola's celebrity biographies are provided by AmericolaWiki, a celebrity wiki. You can help contribute to Americola and edit this article.
Abstract film is a subgenre of
experimental film. Its history often overlaps with the concerns and history of
visual music. Some of the earliest abstract motion pictures known to survive are those produced by a group of German artists working in the early
1920s, a movement referred to as "Absolute" Film:
Walter Ruttmann,
Hans Richter (artist),
Viking Eggeling and
Oskar Fischinger. These artists present different approaches to abstraction-in-motion: as an analogue to music, or as the creation of an
absolute language of form, a desire common to early
abstract art. Ruttmann wrote of his film work as 'painting in time.'
See also
References
- James, David. "The Most Typical Avant-Garde" [UC Press]
- Malcolm Le Grice, Abstract Film and Beyond. [MIT Press, 1981]
- William Moritz, Optical Poetry. [Indiana University Press, 2004]
- Sitney, P. Adams. "Visionary Film"
- William Wees, Light Moving in Time. [University of California Press, 1992]
