A New Art: The Visual Music of Film. (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Diebold, Bernhard
• Is Part Of: Art in translation. Volume 8:Number 1(2016)
• Page Start: 47
• Page End: 52
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: Bernhard Diebold -- Walther Ruttmann -- Max Butting -- Lichtspiel Opus I (1921) -- abstract animation -- absolute film -- visual music; Art -- Periodicals; 700.5
• DOI: 10.1080/17561310.2016.1144272
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1756-1310

Abstract

Abstract: This is a 1921 newspaper review of a screening of Walther Ruttmann's Lichtspiel Opus I, widely recognized today as the first abstract animation to be publicly screened. Here, Diebold, who had been calling for such films since 1916, takes the opportunity to confirm his prior hypothesis in relation to Ruttmann's film and to speculate about the future of such work.