Viking Eggeling - Symphonie Diagonale

Corto de cine experimental 1924

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• arte
• experimental

[maplovideo]

don't think it was supposed to be watch with any music........hum !

by watching it like that, we totally miss the point of this film.

[maplovideo]

Well cinema is not that old, and 1924 is not that far, so it's not about wondering but about reading, and there's lots of litterature on it :)...(To me) this movie is about synesthesia and being able to associate the movement of forms with sounds, organizing geometrical shapes as music, that why it denatures it to actually put any sound on it...

[mishmoshable]

@mishmoshable 1924*

[mishmoshable]

These instruments sound like keyboard samples. It sounds like it was sequenced by a computer with its perfect timing, but this was made in 1929?

[lunitakarola]

Taking almost four years to complete, this frame- by-frame animation showed a strong correlation between music and painting in the movements of the figures, which were created from paper cutouts and tin foil. Eggeling died in Berlin approximately two weeks after his film was released.

[garabonczia]

the music is so epic, it would be a shame to loose it.

[ZaliMistak3]

The music comes with the film.

So yes, you are supposed to watch it with the music.

[Spoonie86]

@deadaliceproject: I came across this fact in an exhibition called "Ré Soupault: Eine Künstlerin im Zentrum der Avantgarde". The exhibition catalogue (available under the same title via Amazonde/ co.uk) probably states reliable sources. There are also books on her in German, but they are more concerned with her work as a photographer. For a "source" in English I can only refer you to the Wikipedia entry on "Absolute film" (end of 6th paragraph), but that only cites a website... Good luck!

[deadaliceproject]

@Spoonie86 If you don't mind me inquired, what sources state this? I'm doing a presentation and it would be interesting to incorporate this information is I can source it properly. :) Thanks.

[Spoonie86]

This piece of art is hugely indebted to the German-French artist Ré Soupault (1901-1996). Eggeling didn't have the necessary film production skills to realize his idea. She taught herself film editing and produced this masterpiece in one year of exhausting work in a cold attic. She was hardly credited for this because of some rivalries between Eggeling and another artist. I saw an exhibitionon her work as a photographer and key Avantgarde figure in Mannheim (Germany) yesterday. Check her out!

[harshe2000]

@FauxFang Song doesn't have a title. It was written to be played live with this film at a one-time film event in Columbus, OH. Kino then asked me to put music to the film on their Avant Garde series. I used the same composition. I agree with the statement, "just use the mute button". There has been lots of discussion about whether to put music to these films. Some feel it doesn't allow one to view the film as it was intended; others feel it gives a film new life/audience/reference points/etc.

[FauxFang]

@nekromantikk Do you know the name of the song?