Rhythmus 21

A film by Hans Richter

  • 1921
  • 3 min (approx.)
  • 35mm, black and white, silent
A still from Rhythmus 21.

Black and white rectangles grow, shrink and slide past each other until the screen itself seems to move. Richter dated it 1921, but its first documented screening was at a Dada soirée at the Théâtre Michel in Paris in July 1923.

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Public domain in the US; copy posted by Films by the Year

Rhythmus 21

Public domain in the US; copy posted by Films by the Year. Open on YouTube

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