Viking Eggeling

Symphonie Diagonale (1924)



From early work with Hans Richter, Swedish filmmaker Viking Eggeling began developing a musical-cubist style of cinema in the summer of 1923, when he making the paper cut-outs and then tin foil figures that make up Symphonie Diagonale; he died sixteen days after it's public premiere in Berlin two years later.

1 comments:

Thorsten said...

nice film, but what's up with the horrible music??? viking wouldn't be amused.