Oskar Fischinger - Volume 1

Our VHS Price: £17.99 RRP: £19.99 Save £2.00 (10%)   Availability This product should be despatched within two weeks. VHS supply is becoming increasingly unpredictable. Please contact us for more information if you required..  This product will be dispatched from Guernsey. Delivery times   Earn 85 Bonus Points when you buy this product. More info

Film Description

Muratti Greift Ein, Spiritual Constructions, Study No.7, Study No.8, Kreise, Allegretto, Motion Painting No.1. The champion of absolute ideas in abstract experimental films, Fischinger's name is synonymous with the genre. This is a good mix of his films from his experiments with animating kaolin wax on glass to his beautiful later colour abstracts.

Film Information

VHS Extras

Includes a booklet of texts by William Moritz.

Technical Details

Reviews & Articles

Share your thoughts and opinions - write a review

Review by GH on 18th December 2002

A good mix of Fischinger's films that moves through the genesis of his experiments with animated movement to his commanding later colour works.
Spiritual Constructions is an animation produced by modelling kaolin wax on glass and follows two drunken men home from the bar. A simple starting point that is brilliantly understandable to anyone who has at anytime found the world and its objects resistant to co-operation.
Kreise (Circles) is full of radiating triumphant surging circles. Commissioned by the Tolirag company in 1933, the film was sold to several companies in different countries where they also used it for advertising by inserting their own name at the very end. The film consists of 1000 paintings, each a commanding abstract study by itself.
Allegretto is an exuberant work, the first Fischinger made in America. Radiating circles are overlaid with the stars, diamonds and comet forms familiar from his earlier black and white studies. The film builds to a triumphant and vigorous conclusion, full of the joys of arrival.
Motion Painting No. 1 was his last finished film and is a monumental work of art. An improvised piece set to Bach though not closely synchronized it is a monument both to the act and art of painting as well as to the creation of painted movement on film. Wishing to keep conditions of filming absolutely consistent he painted every day for five months without ever once seeing what the finished product would be. It is a piece that suggests countless narratives but is irreducible and remains to suggest more. It is a commanding and beautiful lesson in the uses of colour.

View more reviews by GH

Browse all Film Reviews

Collections & Lists

This film is part of the following Film Collections

Experimental Animation

Including: A Scanner Darkly, Berthold Bartosch - L Idee, Dog Star Man - Stan Brakhage, Fluxus - Fluxfilm Anthology, Harry Smith - Early Abstractions, Len Lye - Rhythms, Norman McLaren - The Masters Edition, Oskar Fischinger - Volume 1, Oskar Fischinger - Volume 2, Phil Mulloy - Extreme Animation.

Re:Voir - Superb Art Films

Including: Barbara Hammer - Sanctus, Berthold Bartosch - L Idee, Bill Morrison - 8 Films, Boris Lehman - A La Recherche du Lieu de ma Naissance, Boris Lehman - Lecon De Vie, Cinema Dada, Divine Horsemen: Living Gods Of Haiti, Dog Star Man - Stan Brakhage, Experimental Films - Deren, Fluxus - Fluxfilm Anthology.

View all collections

Create your own Film List!

Customers who bought this also bought...

Recommendations from fellow customers

Oskar Fischinger - Volume 2

by Oskar Fischinger

Len Lye - Rhythms

by Len Lye

Stan Brakhage - Hand-Painted Films.

by Stan Brakhage

Hans Richter - Early Works

by Hans Richter

Fluxus - Fluxfilm Anthology

by Various / Art

Other films by...

More films directed by Oskar Fischinger

Oskar Fischinger - Volume 2

View more >

For questions or assistance, call us on (+44) 0844 776 0900 or email on enquiries@moviemail-online.co.uk

© 2004-2007 MovieMail, Ltd., All Rights Reserved. Find out more about MovieMail