VIKING EGGELING

DIRECTING

Viking Eggeling was a Swedish avant-garde artist and filmmaker connected to dadaism, Constructivism and abstract art and was one of the pioneers in absolute film and visual music.
His 1924 film Diagonal-Symphonie is one of the seminal abstract films in the history of experimental cinema. At the age of sixteen, the orphaned Eggeling moved to Germany to pursue an artistic career.