General Information

Original Title

Symphonie Diagonale

Author/Creator

Eggeling, Viking, director.

Published

France, 1924.

Physical Description

VHS (42 min.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The figure vanishes and the process begins again with a new pattern, each cycle lasting one or two seconds. The complete figures are drawn in a vaguely Art Deco style and could be said to resemble any number of things, an ear, a harp, panpipes, a grand piano with trombones, and so on, only highly stylized. (Avant Garde and Experimental Films 2)

Subjects

Subject

France

Bibliographic Information

Title Translation

Diagonal Symphony

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
VHS	OSA Film Library	FL Record 1337a	Available		-