Center for Visual Music and Southwest Film Center present The Oskar Fischinger Retrospective in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Program features 35mm prints of Fischinger's classic Visual Music films, including Allegretto (2 versions), Composition in Blue, Motion Painting No. 1, Study No. 6, Study No. 7, Muratti Greift Ein, Radio Dynamics, Kreise, American March, Spirals, Spiritual Constructions, Walking from Munich to Berlin and many more. Features prints preserved by Academy Film Archive, Center for Visual Music and Fischinger Archive, with the generous support of Film Foundation, Sony, and Cinematheque quebecoise. CVM presents this program in association with The Fischinger Archive.
One screening each day. Showtimes: Friday 6pm, Saturday 6pm, Sunday 3pm. Tickets available at box office day of event: $5 general admission, $3 students, $4 faculty/staff. Southwest Film Center is in the Student Union building, University of New Mexico.
"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
