Opus III
About Opus III
Colored organic shapes pulse on a dark ground, closer to a heartbeat than to the ruled geometry of Opus I. Hanns Eisler is the composer listed on Wikidata. The Commons print runs 3 minutes 54 seconds.
Cast & crew
More about Opus III
Walter Ruttmann made it with Lore Leudesdorff. Wikidata dates it 1924 and 1925 and lists a 3-minute duration. It was shown publicly in Germany on 3 May 1925 in the Berlin program Der absolute Film.
Themes
Music
Wikidata names Hanns Eisler as the composer.
Preservation
A color print of 3 minutes 54 seconds is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- IMDb describes bright shapes moving on a dark background and classes the print as color.
- The Lichtspiel series runs Opus I through Opus IV, the last dated 1925.
- Eggeling died within days of that May 1925 Berlin screening, which also included this film.
Scenes
- Rounded forms expand and contract in the center like a pulse.
Influenced by
- Lichtspiel: Opus I
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Lichtspiel opus III (1924).webm)
