Viking Eggeling
Symphonie diaganale
A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The figure vanishes and the process begins again with a new pattern, each cycle lasting one or two seconds. The complete figures are drawn in a vaguely Art Deco style and could be said to resemble any number of things, an ear, a harp, panpipes, a grand piano with trombones, and so on, only highly stylized. The tone is playful and hypnotic.
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Oscar Fischinger Programma
Credits
Director
Viking Eggeling
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Dialogue
no dialogue
Countries of production
Germany
Year
1924
