and 3 Early Films:
Wax Experiments
At last! Fischinger on DVD! First DVD in a series from CVM
Order here through CVM directly,
and also through CVM's online store
Contains 10 of Oskar Fischinger's classic Visual Music films
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Spirals |
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Study no. 6 | |
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Study no. 7 | |
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Kreise | |
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Allegretto | |
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Radio Dynamics | |
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Motion Painting No. 1 | |
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Spiritual Constructions | |
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Walking from Munich to Berlin |
Special Features
Released May 2006. Order here
Produced
by The Center for Visual Music
in
association with The Elfriede Fischinger Trust and Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Decades
before computer graphics, before music videos, even before "Fantasia" (the 1940
version), there were the abstract animated films of Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967),
master of "absolute" or nonobjective filmmaking. He was cinema's Kandinsky,
an animator who, beginning in the 1920's in Germany, created exquisite "visual
music" using geometric patterns and shapes choreographed tightly to classical
music and jazz. (John Canemaker, New York Times)
Oskar Fischinger is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, embracing the abstraction that became the major art movement of that century, and exploring the new technology of the cinema to open abstract painting into a new Visual Music that performs in liquid time. (Biographer William Moritz)
We now understand Oskar Fischinger not only as a link between the geometric painting of pre-war Europe and post-war California but as a grandfather of the digital arts. (Art Critic Peter Frank)
Films
and Photographs © Elfriede Fischinger Trust
DVD © Center for Visual Music,
2006
Licensed for private home use only, all other rights reserved
DVD,
NTSC, Region-free
Color and B/W-Tinted; Sound
and Silent
ISBN 0-9764320-1-3
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- US$30
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- US$200
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Limited educational license allows for screenings in classrooms and library/research collection use only. Public Performance Rights are not included (screenings for public or paid audiences, and exhibition in museums and galleries are not permitted under this license, other uses require additional permissions and licenses).
Order via mail with this form: Institutional Order form (PDF)
In New York, the DVD is available at The Museum of Modern Art bookstore, and at Anthology Film Archives.
In Washington DC, at the bookstore of the National Gallery of Art.
In Europe: Available at bookshop of Tate Modern (London) and BFI Southbank Filmstore, and online through absolut MEDIEN (Germany). Also available at Deutsches Filmmuseum (Frankfurt), Walter Koenig Bookseller (Koln), Polyfilm Austria (online) and in Amsterdam (Nederlands Filmmuseum).
In Japan - Meditations (online). In Australia - Otherfilm (online).
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