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UNSEEN CINEMA 7: Viva La Dance: The Beginnings of CINÉ-DANCE, An Optical Poem
directed by Oskar Fischinger, 1900-1967; produced by Oskar Fischinger, 1900-1967, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in UNSEEN CINEMA 7: Viva La Dance: The Beginnings of CINÉ-DANCE (United States: Filmmakers Showcase, 1937), 8 mins
VIVA LA DANCE is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. A milestone in object animation, Fischinger manipulated hundreds of paper cutouts hung on invisible wires and shot a frame-at-a-time in close synchronization to Liszt’s rhapsody. The dance of...
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directed by Oskar Fischinger, 1900-1967; produced by Oskar Fischinger, 1900-1967, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in UNSEEN CINEMA 7: Viva La Dance: The Beginnings of CINÉ-DANCE (United States: Filmmakers Showcase, 1937), 8 mins
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VIVA LA DANCE is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. A milestone in object animation, Fischinger manipulated hundreds of paper cutouts hung on invisible wires and shot a frame-at-a-time in close synchronization to Liszt’s rhapsody. The dance of shapes resembles a voyage through an imaginary space where “the keen sensation of depth becomes a conceptual part of the action, wit...
VIVA LA DANCE is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. A milestone in object animation, Fischinger manipulated hundreds of paper cutouts hung on invisible wires and shot a frame-at-a-time in close synchronization to Liszt’s rhapsody. The dance of shapes resembles a voyage through an imaginary space where “the keen sensation of depth becomes a conceptual part of the action, with the circles that rotate around each other revealed as cosmic figures that could be either microscopic cells or stellar configurations." (William Moritz) Sadly this was the only Fischinger film commissioned and released by a major Hollywood studio. —BRUCE POSNER Oskar Fischinger, born in Germany, was trained as a musician and engineer but became a supreme figure among artists in search of the absolute. Fischinger’s films draw parallels between music and visual movement, creating some of the most precise and beautiful amalgams of sound and image cinema has ever known. —R. BRUCE ELDER 35mm 1.37:1 color sound 7:03 minutes. Production: MGM
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Field of Study
American Film
Content Type
Animation
Contributor
Oskar Fischinger, 1900-1967, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Author / Creator
Oskar Fischinger, 1900-1967
Date Published / Released
1937
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Series
UNSEEN CINEMA 7: Viva La Dance: The Beginnings of CINÉ-DANCE
Topic / Theme
Animation, Stop-motion animation, Animated films
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