To fully appreciate Opus III by German filmmaker Walter Ruttman, it’s worth it to first look at a typical cartoon from 1924, such as this one: Now, here is Ruttman’s short from the same year ...

MoMA’s ‘Silent Movie Week’ Offers the Chance To Catch a Gem of the Genre, Walter Ruttmann’s ‘Berlin: Symphony of a Great City’ Trained as a painter, Ruttmann brought the heady innovations of early ...

Walter Ruttmann was a German film director and along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger was an early German practitioner of experimental film. Ruttmann was born in Frankfurt ...

KATHARINA VON ANKUM, The Cinematic Engendering of Urban Experience: Walter Ruttmann's "Berlin, die Symphonie einer Großstadt", Colloquia Germanica, Vol. 29, No. 3 (1996), pp. 209-221 ...

The colors on the screen rise and fall, nearly bursting from the borders of the geometric shapes.Walter Ruttmann’s 1921 short film “Lichtspiel Opus I”is oil paint on glass, but tonight in The ...

Although he acknowledged its technical virtuosity, John Grierson (who is widely credited as `the father of the documentary') criticised Walter Ruttmann's landmark film for its formalism and beauty ...

The documentary film describes a day in the big city of Berlin and is based on Walter Ruttmann's 1927 black-and-white silent film Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt, which also depicts a day in ...

An enchanting, endearing feature of this detailed and serious study of four films by Walter Ruttmann, Stan Brakhage, Naomi Uman and Martin Arnold is that it advances through a series of anecdotes, ...