Diagonal Symphony
Diagonal Symphony
An Animation film released in 1924, Diagonal Symphony runs 7m and comes from Germany. Soap2Day lists it with Viking Eggeling directing. It holds 5.7/10 from 63 votes. A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The figure vanishes and the process begins again with a new pattern, each cycle lasting one or two seconds. The complete figures are drawn in a vaguely Art Deco style and could be said to resemble any number of things, an ear, a harp, panpipes, a grand piano with trombones, and so on, only highly stylized. The tone is playful and hypnotic.
