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Kreise (Circles), 1933-34 by Oskar Fischinger. One of the first color films in Europe, made with the Gaspar Color process.

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At a time when most people equated animation with Mickey Mouse, Oskar Fischinger’s abstract films were taking animation in a new, challenging direction. Fischinger was a fixture of the German art world during the 1930s. But the Nazi regime saw abstract art as decadent and a threat, and Fischinger fled his native country to Hollywood in 1935. Fischinger’s best-known American work is his sequence in Walt Disney’s Fantasia, set to Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.

Oskar Fischinger, Kreise (1933).mkv

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This experimental film is a study of an abstract painting as it grows out of the mind and soul of the artist and filmmaker. Painstakingly hand-painted in a Impressionist pixel-point style over a period of 9 months (!), and equally laboriously stop-animated, Fischinger captures not only the wonderful decision-making process of the artist at work, but the “life” that the work itself takes on as it changes and grows. Use of color, patterns, and pacing compliment and clash with one another before the viewer’s eyes and lead one into an impossible world that seems none-the-less real, and all the more engaging for seeming to just be made of pure MAGIC!

216MB | 11 min 0 s | 718×524 | mkv

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Animated to the lively accompaniment of Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5, and created using thousands of handmade black & white charcoal drawings, Fischinger’s delightfully dynamic short film sees dozens of white shapes dance, glide, shoot, and pop across a stark black background, leaving us transfixed in their wake.

50.1MB | 2 min 37 s | 720×524 | mkv

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38.2MB | 2 min 4 s | 720×540 | mkv

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“The title R-1, EIN FORMSPIEL VON OSKAR FISCHINGER survives on two different films, one composed entirely of STAFFS … and one composed of small fragments of many different experiments – wax, model planets, atoms, etc. – including a great deal of STAFFS footage. For convenience, I will use the title R-1 to refer to this second, mixed film which appears to be a revised version of the first ….

“R-1 probably was a tinted film, and to further extrapolate from the large number of tinted fragments that survive (and also the large number that must have been used in the making of the Gasparcolor tests) it may well have been the multiple-projector film Fieber which was mentioned several times in 1926 and 1927 in letters and newspaper articles.” – Dr. William Moritz, Film Culture

This film is a 1993 recreation by William Moritz and the Fischinger Archive, and is not Fischinger’s original edit.

120MB | 8:34.519 | 640×480 | avi
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Various quality, some mpg, some avi. Recommended if you like Len Lye.

1930 Studie Nr. 6
1931 Studie Nr. 7
1931 Studie Nr. 9
1933 Kreise
1934 Muratti Greift Ein
1935 Komposition in Blau
1935 Muratti Privat
1941 American March
1943 Allegretto
1947 Motion Painting
1952 Muntz-Tvmercial
1955 Oklahoma Gaspany

https://nitro.download/view/5631D5ED82A7B2E/Oskar_Fischinger.rar

Language(s):German and English
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The post Oskar Fischinger – Short animation collection (1931 – 1955) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Spirals (1926)
Study no. 6 (1930)
Study no. 7 (1931)
Kreise (1933)
Allegretto (1936-43)
Radio Dynamics (1942)
Motion Painting No. 1 (1947)

and 3 Early Films:

Wax Experiments (1921-26)
Spiritual Constructions (1927)
Walking from Munich to Berlin (1927)

Special Features
* Never-released early experiments, animation drawings and tests
* Home movies of Oskar, Elfriede and Hans Fischinger in the Berlin Studio, c. 1931
* Biographical Photographs
* A Selection of Paintings by Fischinger
* Film notes by Fischinger and others
* Biography
* Preserved films, high definition digital transfers and digitally remastered audio

Decades before computer graphics, before music videos, even before “Fantasia” (the 1940 version), there were the abstract animated films of Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967), master of “absolute” or nonobjective filmmaking. He was cinema’s Kandinsky, an animator who, beginning in the 1920’s in Germany, created exquisite “visual music” using geometric patterns and shapes choreographed tightly to classical music and jazz. (John Canemaker, New York Times)

Oskar Fischinger is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, embracing the abstraction that became the major art movement of that century, and exploring the new technology of the cinema to open abstract painting into a new Visual Music that performs in liquid time. (Biographer William Moritz)

We now understand Oskar Fischinger not only as a link between the geometric painting of pre-war Europe and post-war California but as a grandfather of the digital arts. (Art Critic Peter Frank)

https://nitro.download/view/F2AF7E539BC20B8/Fischinger.rar

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Total running time 50 min.
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