Third instalment in a series of short, abstract animations, featuring bright shapes moving against a dark background. The shapes move across the screen in harmony with the music.
Germany
The Kinetic Canvas: Deconstructing Walter Ruttmann's 'Opus III' To approach Walter Ruttmann’s 'Opus III' is to step into a realm where cinema sheds its mimetic skin and embraces its purest, most elemental forms. Released in the early 1920s, a period largely dominated by the burgeoning narrative structures exe...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Walter Ruttmann
Vernon Stallings
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" The Kinetic Canvas: Deconstructing Walter Ruttmann's 'Opus III' To approach Walter Ruttmann’s 'Opus III' is to step into a realm where cinema sheds its mimetic skin and embraces its purest, most elemental forms. Released in the early 1920s, a period largely dominated by the burgeoning narrative structures exemplified by films like The Foolish Age or Sunlight's Last Raid, Ruttmann’s work represented a radical departure, a bold assertion that film could be more than a storytelling medium..."
Animation, Short
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