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Engaging Flow: On Ruttmann’s ‘Berlin, Symphony of a Great City’
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Engaging Flow: On Ruttmann’s ‘Berlin, Symphony of a Great City’

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 / 30 November 2018

One way to understand the form of Walther Ruttmann's Berlin, Symphony of a Great City, is to see it as producing states of flow that reinforce a flat ontology among humans, animals, machines, buildings, bodies of water, etc.

I See Music: How Oskar Fischinger Influenced Disney
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I See Music: How Oskar Fischinger Influenced Disney

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 / 1 March 2018

Remember the pre-CGI visual beauty of Fantasia? Fischinger, who also worked with Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, among others, invented the "lumigraph" (a machine for "playing" colors on screen). This guy should be put on a stamp.