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Relevant passages:
Diedrich Diederichsen «Montage / Sampling / Morphing. On the Triassic of Aesthetics / Techniques / Politics»
Works by László Moholy-Nagy:
Check as well:
ZERO «Zero-Manifest»
Piene, Otto; Tambellini, Aldo «Black Gate Cologne» Oskar Fischinger «Entwurf zu »Fantasia«» Walter Ruttmann «Lichtspiel Opus I»
László Moholy-Nagy
«Light Display: Black-White-Grey»
«‹Lichtspiel, schwarz-weiß-grau› was originally supposed to consist of six parts, but only the last part was filmed. The first five parts were supposed to show different forms of light in set combinations: from the self-lighting match, automobile headlights, reflections, moonlight, and colored projections with prisms and mirrors to the production of the ‹light prop.› The filmed part [...] consists of documentary photographs of a rotation light prop; and the large shots of the numerous discs, screens, mirrors, and ball-shaped structures join forces with the fades to produce an abstract play of light and shadow.»
(source: Hans Scheugl, Ernst Schmidt jr., Eine Subgeschichte des Films, Frankfurt/M., 1974, p. 611f, in: Goethe-Institut (ed.), The German Avant-Garde Film of the 1920’s, exhib. cat., München, 1989, p. 54.)
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