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Opus IV

19254 minGermany
Animation

Synopsis

Geometric forms move, expand and meet across the screen in an abstract visual composition. Rhythm comes from the changing shapes and their arrangement rather than characters or a conventional story.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
4:18
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Walter Ruttmann · Public domain

DirectorsWalter Ruttmann

Historical context

The film concludes Walter Ruttmann's four-part Opus series. These experiments helped develop the idea of absolute film, treating cinema as an art of movement and visual rhythm.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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