Lightplay Opus II
About Lightplay Opus II
Ruttmann's second abstract short sets wedges, curves, and hard-edged blobs moving against black. The forms do not depict objects. A circulating print runs 3 minutes and 45 seconds. Max Butting is the composer named on Wikidata.
Cast & crew
More about Lightplay Opus II
Wikidata dates the film to 1921 and 1922 and gives the length as 4 minutes. The copy on Wikimedia Commons is labeled 1922 and runs 3 minutes 45 seconds. On 3 May 1925 it was shown in Berlin in the matinee Der absolute Film at the UFA-Palast am Kurfürstendamm, with Opus III and Opus IV.
Themes
Music
Wikidata credits Max Butting, as on Opus I.
Preservation
A 1922 print of 3 minutes 45 seconds is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The 3 May 1925 program sold out the UFA-Palast's 900 seats and was repeated a week later.
- Viking Eggeling's Symphonie diagonale and Hans Richter's Rhythmus films were on the same bill.
- The German title is Lichtspiel Opus II.
Scenes
- Angular shapes slide in from the edges and meet in the center of a black field.
Influenced by
- Lichtspiel: Opus I
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Lichtspiel Opus II (1922).webm)
