Abstract film is a subgenre of
experimental film. Its history often overlaps with the concerns and history of
visual music. Some of the earliest abstract motion pictures known to survive are those produced by a group of German artists working in the early 1920s, a movement referred to as "Absolute" Film:
Walter Ruttmann,
Hans Richter (artist),
Viking Eggeling and
Oskar Fischinger. These artists present different approaches to abstraction-in-motion: as an analogue to music, or as the creation of an
absolute language of form, a desire common to early
abstract art. Ruttmann wrote of his film work as 'painting in time.'
Abstract films are non-narrative visual/sound experiences with no story and no acting. They rely on the unique qualities of motion, rhythm and form inherent in the technical medium of cinema to create emotional experiences[
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