Oskar Fischinger

Compilation of abstract animated films by Oskar Fischinger; includes his short films Spirals, Spiritual Constructions, Study 6, Liebesspiel, Radio Dynamics, and Motion Painting No. 1. (imdb)

Painting coordinated tothe Brandenburgisches Concerto No 3 by Bach.

Experimental film with moving colored shapes.

An abstract sequence of coloured shapes pulsating in a pattern.

Classic and patriotic Fischinger animation with stars and stripes

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. (iotacenter.org)

Moving music. (imdb comments)

This is an abstract film in which every motion is in strict synchronization with music, so the description must be read in terms of the overall impression it gives. Within a deep blue environment, one red cube slowly drifts on a reflecting floor. Suddenly there are multiple red cubes drifting and dancing in various formations. Over the course of the film the angularity of square shapes are transformed into circular and cylindrical shapes. (imdb)

Animated cigarette advertisement.

Muratti was a German brand of cigarettes. Fischinger transforms bunches of standing cigarettes into things that resemble human beings. At first they walk daintily around packages of Muratti tins. Gradually as the film progresses their motions become more graceful, as they do "slides" and other motions and formations associated with dance. (imdb)

Early animation using colored dots and lines.

Flashes of light animated to music.

Experimental animated short.

White flashes of animation on a black backdrop.

In 1927, motivated by a longing for freedom, Fischinger set off on a walking trip from Munich to Berlin. Covering the distance in nearly four weeks, he captured the country's hidden beauty. His voyage serves as a symbolical transition and underlines a belief that people are the same everywhere. (filmfestivalrotterdam.com)

Experimental short using multiple film and slide projectors

Whimsical and yet somewhat deranged silhouettes of anamorphic men twist and transform themselves in a world where nothing moves or acts as one should, would or could expect. (imdb User Comments)

For the production of this film, Oskar Fischinger tinted various layers of hot wax. After cooling, the resulting lump of wax resembled a marble cake. Fischinger then began to cut off slices from the lump, photographing each step. (filmportal.de)

Various spiral effects in black and white.