Oskar Fischinger 1900-1967 : experiments in cinematic abstraction /
Experiments in cinematic abstraction
edited by Cindy Keefer and Jaap Guldemond.
- Amsterdam : Los Angeles : EYE Filmmuseum ; Center for Visual Music, 2013.
- 240 p. : col. ; 27 cm.
This exhibition is co-organized by EYE Filmmuseum and Center for Visual Music, and co-curated by EYE\'s Director of Exhibitions Jaap Guldemond and Cindy Keefer of Center for Visual Music during December 16, 2012- March 17, 2013.
Includes bibliography (p. 229-231) and filmography (p. 227-228).
Preface / Sandra den Hamer -- Introduction and Acknowledgements / Cindy Keefer -- Oskar Fisching : an introduction / Jaap Guldemond, Marente Bloemheuvel, Cindy Keefer -- Autobiography / Oskar Fischinger -- Images -- Oskar Fischinger and the European artistic context / Jean-Michel Bouhours -- Wax slicing machine -- Oskar Fischinger in Germany, 1900 to 1936 / Jeanpaul Goergen -- Oskar Fischinger, modernist painter / Ilene Susan Fort -- Images -- Oskar Fischinger/Wassily Kandinsky : where abstraction and comics collide / Esther Leslie -- The composer of the future and the absolute sound film / Oskar Fischinger -- Images from Ornament sound experiments -- A timetable and music : a visit to Oskar Fischinger\'s color-sound animated film studio / Author unknown -- Fischinger\'s early color experimentation / Cindy Keefer -- My statements are in my work / Oskar Fischinger -- About Motion painting Nr. 1 / Oskar Fischinger -- Images -- The visions of Oskar Fischinger and Alexander László in 1935/36 about a new way of visualizing music / Jörg Jewanski -- The spirit inside each object : John Cage & Oskar Fischinger / Richard H. Brown -- Oskar Fischinger\'s Synthetic sound machine / Joseph Hyde -- Fischinger\'s scores : new perspectives on his approach to music / Joseph Hyde -- Essay without words : Motion painting no. 1, insight, and the ornament / James Tobias -- Fischinger misconstrued : visual music does not equal synesthesia / Paul Hertz -- Optical expression : Oskar Fischinger, William Moritz and visual music : an edited guide to the key concerns / Cindy Keefer -- Images -- The Lumigraph : dancing with your hands / an interview with Barbara Fischinger by Cindy Keefer -- Images -- Oskar Fischinger\'s Raumlichtkunst / Cindy Keefer.
The German-American avant-garde filmmaker Oskar Fischinger is one of the main protagonists in the history of animation and abstract cinema. Fischinger created a new abstract film language that parallels and interacts with musical qualities. From the 1920s onward this pioneer of visual music coupled abstract images with music and rythms, long before the arrival of music video. Fishinger was a true virtuoso in the way he created highly complex animated films that develop dynamic rhythms, harmonies, and counterpoints. This monograph explores the position of Fishinger\'s work within the international avant-garde. It examines his animation and painting, his use of music, his experiences in Hollywood, and his influence on today\'s filmmakers, artists and animators.