Diagonal Symphony (1925)
- Original title
- Symphonie diagonale
- Directed by
- Viking Eggeling, Ré Soupault
- Genre
- silent film, abstract animation film
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 7 min
- Rating
- 5.7 of 10 from 63 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This is a short silent abstract animation from 1923. It shows a series of geometric shapes moving and transforming in a rhythmic, musical-like pattern.
experimentalabstractminimalistrhythmicsilentgeometricvisually starkcontemplative
What happens
Symphonie diagonale, or Diagonal-Symphonie as its German title was, is a 1923 German film directed by Viking Eggeling. The title has also been misspelled Symphonie diaganale in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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