The Center for Visual Music (CVM), a nonprofit archive based in Los Angeles dedicated to visual music and experimental animation, has extensive mixed media animation collections. Its largest collections are the films of Oskar Fischinger and Jordan Belson, plus Fischinger’s…
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Oskar Fischinger on the word ‘Experimental’
by Cindy Keefer • March 27, 2015 • 0 Comments
In 1949 Oskar Fischinger’s film Motion Painting No. I (1947) was awarded the Grand Prix du Film Expérimental at the Festival international du cinéma expérimental in Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium. Conceived by Jacque Ledoux, the festival was organized by the Cinématheque Royale…
Optical Expression: Oskar Fischinger, William Moritz and Visual Music
by Cindy Keefer • June 10, 2013 • 2 Comments
Excerpt from: Optical Expression: Oskar Fischinger, William Moritz and Visual Music An Edited Guide to the Key Concerns By Cindy Keefer Oskar Fischinger is credited as the father of Visual Music, but what does this really mean? What were his…