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'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.'

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See also

★ Experimental film

★ Visual music

★ Color organ

★ Pure Cinema

★ Absolute Film

References

★ James, David. "The Most Typical Avant-Garde" [UC Press]

★ Malcolm Le Grice, ''Abstract Film and Beyond.'' [MIT Press, 1981]

★ William Moritz, ''Optical Poetry.'' [Indiana University Press, 2004]

★ Sitney, P. Adams. "Visionary Film"

★ William Wees, ''Light Moving in Time.'' [University of California Press, 1992]