An Optical Poem (1938)
- Directed by
- Oskar Fischinger
- Genre
- abstract animation film, visual music
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 6 min
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 39 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This is a short abstract film based on Franz Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Geometric shapes such as circles, squares, and triangles move in time with the music against changing colored backgrounds.
rhythmicabstractmusicalflowinghypnoticminimalcolorfulexperimental
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- Fantasmagoria I (1938)
- Radio Dynamics (1942)
- Early Abstractions (1939)
- Fantasmagoria III (1940)
- Tarantella (1941)
- Synchromy No. 4 (1939)
- Motion Painting No. 1 (1947)
- Fantasmagoria II (1939)
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