Outsider Cinema

Opus IV

A film by Walter Ruttmann

  • 1925
  • 4 min (approx.)
A still from Opus IV.

The last of Ruttmann's Lichtspiel series: bars, lines and geometric shapes advance and pile up in time with the cutting. It had its first German showing at the Der absolute Film matinee in Berlin on 3 May 1925.

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Public domain in the US; copy posted by Prism Factory

Opus IV

Public domain in the US; copy posted by Prism Factory. Open on YouTube

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