Some avant-garde films such as those of Viking Eggeling - TopicsExpress



          

Some avant-garde films such as those of Viking Eggeling (Symphonied iagonale, 1921-24) or the early work of Richter (Rhythmus2 3, 1923, Rhythmus2 5, 1925) moved strongly toward abstraction, or "pure cinema," a great many works began with images of a recognizable reality in order to transform it. On this point, constructivist art, Soviet montage theory, and the European avantgarde stood in accord: the world as it offers itself to us provides the starting point for both political and aesthetic acts of transformation
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 21:01:00 +0000

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