(1900 – 1967)
Filmmaker and pioneer of abstract film.
Fischinger turned to abstract film under the influence of Ruttmann’s “Opus I”. He was one of the few filmmakers of his day who had already begun to think about linking music and visual effects at the onset of sound film in the 1920s. For example, he subordinated the visual rhythm to the auditive one in the opening sequences of films like “Studies”. His works along with those of his colleagues Ruttmann, Richter, Eggeling, to name a few, are considered precursors to the modern video clip. From 1936 on, Fischinger also devoted himself to abstract painting.