Center for Visual Music

At last! Fischinger on DVD! First DVD in a series from CVM

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Contains 10 of Oskar Fischinger's classic Visual Music films

		Spirals
		Study no. 6
		Study no. 7
		Kreise
		Allegretto
		Radio Dynamics
		Motion Painting No. 1
		and 3 Early Films: Wax Experiments
		Spiritual Constructions
		Walking from Munich to Berlin

  Special Features

•    Never-released early experiments, animation drawings and tests
•    Home movies of Oskar, Elfriede and Hans Fischinger in the Berlin Studio, c. 1931
•    Biographical Photographs
•    A Selection of Paintings by Fischinger
•    Film notes by Fischinger and others
•    Biography
•    Preserved films, high definition digital transfers and digitally remastered audio

Release Date 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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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).

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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) or BFI Southbank Filmstore, and online through absolut MEDIEN (Germany). Also available in Germany through Walter Koenig Booksellers (Koln), and at the Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt. In Amsterdam, through Nederlands Filmmuseum. In Austria, Polyfilm online. In Japan, Meditations online.

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