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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1370

Symphonie diagonale

19257 minGermany

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: zxx.
This copy runs: 7:28
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Viking Eggeling · Public domain

Synopsis

White lines and curved shapes appear, change and disappear against a dark field. Their movements build an abstract visual composition whose rhythms replace characters and a conventional story.

DirectorsViking Eggeling

Historical context

Viking Eggeling developed the film during the early movement toward abstract cinema. Completed before its 1925 public presentation, it treats moving forms as the basis of a visual counterpart to music.

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