Friday 30 June 2006, 19.00
and Sunday 2 July 2006, 15.00

Programme duration 60 min

Oskar Fischinger (1900–67) was one of the masters of animated film and an influential pioneer of abstract cinema. His dazzling films explore the effects of sight, visual sound and motion as a spiritual pursuit, consistent with his interest in theosophy and Buddhism. Beginning his career in Weimar Republic Germany during the early 1920s, Fischinger was influenced by Wassily Kandinsky’s theories on the spiritual nature of art, as well as by his interest in the confluence of music, colour, rhythm and synaesthetic experience.

This programme offers a rare chance to see several examples of Fischinger’s 'visual music', including Komposition in Blau (1935), Allegretto (1936), Radio Dynamics (1942) and Motion Painting No. 1 (1947).

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended

    

Programme:

Wax Experiments
1923, colour, silent, 9 min

Spiritual Constructions
1927, black and white, sound, 7 min

Study No.6
1930, black and white, sound, 2 min                             

Study No.7
1931, black and white, sound, 2 min 30 sec  

Liebesspiel
1931, black and white, silent, 3 min

Study No.12
1932, black and white, sound, 5 min                             

Kreise
1933, colour, sound, 2 min

Composition in Blue
1935, colour, sound, 4 min

Allegretto
1936, colour, sound, 3 min

Radio Dynamics
1943, colour, sound, 4 min

Motion Painting No.1
1947, colour, sound, 11 min

This event is related to the Kandinsky: The Path to Abstraction exhibition