Opus IV (film)

On 3 May 1925 the Sunday matinee program Der absolute Film took place in the UFA-Palast theater at the Kurfurstendamm in Berlin. Its 900 seats soon sold out and the program was repeated a week later. Viking Eggeling's Symphonie diagonale, Hans Richter's Rhythmus 21 and Rhythmus 23, Walter Ruttmann's Opus II, Opus III and Opus IV were all shown publicly for the first time in Germany, along with the two French dadaist cinéma pur films Ballet Mécanique and René Clair's ''Entr'acte'', and Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack's performance with a type of color organ. Eggeling happened to die a few days later. ==Recent use==

Recently, Opus IV has been reworked into a youtube video. In the reworking, a selection of Ruttmann's shapes have been made transparent, and the resulting frames have been overlapped with non-abstract video frames (photos of the moon). A soundtrack has been added. The video has been slightly accelerated in order to match the duration of the audio. ==References==