Nonobjective Films, 1920s-1960s

Thinking about visiting the Guggenheim Museum soon? You should! Every Friday at the Sackler Center's New Media they show interesting film screenings, which are free with museum admission Coming up:

Nonobjective Films, 1920s-1960s
A program of artists supported by Hilla Rebay
Organized by the Center for Visual Music
11 am
May 7 and 21

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In the 1940s, curator and founding director Hilla Rebay planned to establish a film center at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, which later became the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, to collect and promote nonobjective films. She awarded grants to artists and presented programs of short experimental films. With the help of Oskar Fischinger, an elaborate film center was planned to include studios and planetarium-style projection capability. Although unrealized, Rebay's support enabled many filmmakers to continue their work in abstract film. This program presents short films by filmmakers whose work was screened and/or supported by Rebay, including Mary Ellen Bute, Charles Dockum, Oskar Fischinger, Norman McLaren, and Hans Richter, among others. Having experimented with nonobjectivity, many of these artists were familiar with the work of Vasily Kandinsky, one of its most famous practitioners, having seen his paintings at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting.

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