Viking/Jan
Eggeling/Nordlander

Viking Eggeling (1880 – 1925) was a Swedish avant-garde artist and filmmaker connected to dadaism, Constructivism and abstract art and was one of the pioneers in absolute film and visual music. His ...

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    Symphonie Diagonale
    Experimental

    Symphonie Diagonale
    Viking/Jan Eggeling/Nordlander

    16mm, black and white, silent, 8 min
    Rental format: 16mm
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Biography

Viking Eggeling (1880 – 1925) was a Swedish avant-garde artist and filmmaker connected to dadaism, Constructivism and abstract art and was one of the pioneers in absolute film and visual music. His 1924 film Diagonal-Symphonie is one of the seminal abstract films in the history of experimental cinema.