Saturday, July 15, 2006

Review: Oscar Fischinger Ten Films

It's a recent dvd release for the center for visual music. I hae no clue who they are. But that doesn't really matter. Most likely you've never heard of this guy. Well who Oscar Fischinger is, he's a guy who made early experimental films that were basically makes him the gradfather of special effects. Probably the most amazing thing about this dvd is he built everything. So when he's shooting against these crazy lights and backgrounds it's not tricks there all made or used simple effects. He uses light and animation and really nice backgrounds to make some of these effects. Some go according to music others are silent. The ones that go by music was an obvious precurser to Fantasia. Apprently he never worked on that film which sucks cause it was his idea but Fantasia orginally bombed so maybe it didn't bug him so bad.
One of the best films on here for me is walking from munich to berlin. where Oscar walked from Munich to berlin with his camera and took really qucik shots of stuff on the way. You'd think that would get boring but no shot is the same or repeats and they all look alot different.
I don't know if you can review something like this like you can a film with plot or anything. But I can tell you that if you love film, effects, or animation this is defently for you.
This is also the first time these have been avavilable in a long time so this is areally great chance to get it now. I'm actually unsure where to get this from but i will put it up when i figure it out.also here's some images from his films.



2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This site is one of the best I have ever seen, wish I had one like this.
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4:08 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Fischinger DVD is available at
www.centerforvisualmusic.org/DVD.htm

9:18 AM

 

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