Rhythmus 23 (1925)

Directed by

Hans Richter

Genre

silent film, experimental film, absolute film

Country

German Reich

Runtime

2 min

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1923 silent short film by Hans Richter shows white, black, and gray rectangles moving across the screen. The shapes grow, shrink, and shift in straight or diagonal paths. A single pattern with non-parallel lines appears at the start and returns near the end.

abstractminimalistrhythmicgeometricsilentnon-narrativeexperimentalvisual-music

What happens

Rhythmus 23 è un cortometraggio del 1923, diretto da Hans Richter. Elementi grafici, principalmente rettangoli bianchi o neri, più raramente grigi, e di rado figure a linee parallele graduate, vengono presentati in movimento, nel loro crescere e decrescere, ortogonalmente o diagonalmente rispetto allo schermo. Il motivo iniziale, l'unico a contenere linee non parallele, viene ripresentato verso la fine del film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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