Ralph Steiner - H2O

WORK IN PROGRESS

H2O

9 min 55 sec

Description: "A study on water, the reflections and motions of the liquid that accentuates its ethereality and metallic beauty." Directed by Ralph Steiner, 1929.

My Comment: Like Regen of Ivens, like Symphonie Diagonale of Eggeling, probably it is worth to watch it with and without score. The image speaks for itself and has its own harmonic and contrapuntal structures. Steiner followed in H2O the path of Georgia O'Keeffe: the same path towards more and more abstraction, to catch the essence beyond the obvious. Think at H2O, think at Jack-in-the-pulpit. Simply put, H2O of Steiner is a masterpiece.

(Click here if the video does not appear)