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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)

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 bookshop of PS 1. In Washington DC, it is usually available at the bookstore of the National Gallery of Art.

In Europe: Available at BFI Southbank Filmstore, and online through absolut MEDIEN (Germany). Also available in Germany through Walter Koenig Booksellers (Koln), and usually at the Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt. In Austria, Polyfilm online. In Paris, through HEEZA and Chalet Films. In Japan, Meditations online.

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