Oskar Fischinger: 1900-1967

A richly illustrated monograph exploring the position of Fischinger’s abstract film language within the international avant-garde

The German-American filmmaker Oskar Fischinger is one of the main protagonists in the history of animation and abstract cinema. From the 1920s onward, this pioneer of visual music coupled abstract images with music and rhythms, long before the arrival of the music video.

Fischinger was a true virtuoso who created complex animated patterns that develop dynamic rhyth...