At the recent conference Novembergruppe 2018 (Dessau, March 3, 2018), PI Francesco Finocchiaro held a lecture on the role of musical metaphors in the aesthetic reflections that lie at the foundations of abstract cinema. In his paper, Dr. Finocchiaro described Walter Ruttmann’s Lichtspiel Opus 1 as the result of an inherently metaphorical creative process: a painted paraphrase of rhythm and musical phrasing that confers the cinematic work the content and character of a musical piece.
F. Finocchiaro, ‘Der absolute Film’: The Role of Musical Metaphors in the Aesthetic Manifesto of Abstract Cinema, Symposium Novembergruppe, Dessau, March 3, 2018.
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