Study No. 5
- Oskar Fischinger |
- 1930 |
- 3 minutes |
- B&W |
- OPT
Rental Format(s): 16mm film
"For the music to this film, Fischinger chose a popular foxtrot, 'I've Never Seen a Smile Like Yours,' that had appeared as a number in an American musical feature, The Perfect Alibi. Fischinger transforms the dance into a fantastic abstract ballet, in which two levels of 'dancers' flow past and through each other: regular and orderly groups of thin-line, hard-edged figures (unmistakably male and female) which move in patterned configurations reminiscent of Busby Berkeley's later choreography, and extremely fluid, plastic figures which constantly change their consistency and size - fluttering, surging, swirling, melting across the screen like drops of water liberated from the laws of nature." - Dr. William Moritz, Film Culture