Diagonal Symphony (Symphonie Diagonale)

Eggeling developed a notion of counterpoint of linear elements; graphic notions developed sequentially and related to each other in a vertical form or scroll, using film to give the scrolls kinetic form. In Diagonal Symphony ‘the emphasis is on objectively analysed movement rather than expressiveness, on the specific patterning of lines into clearly defined movements controlled by mechanical, almost metronomic tempo’.