Oskar FischingerProgram: Fischinger's Study series were shown before first-run featuresand brought the artist his first popular success. Made with thousands ofseparate charcoal drawings, the films are closely synchronized withmusic, and explore the movements of figures of pure light: Study No. 6(1930, 2 min, music by Paul Hindemith); Study No. 7 (1931, 3 min, musicfrom "Hungarian Dance No. 5" by Brahms); Study No. 8 (1931, 5 min, musicfrom "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Dukas); Study No. 11 (1932, 4 min,music from a Divertimento by Mozart); Study No. 11A, A Play in Colors(1934, 2 min, music from a Divertimento by Mozart, Color). Rennsymphonie (Race Symphony) by Hans Richter(1928, 5 min, Silent): Made as an unconventional opening for aconventional narrative feature, Rennsymphonie is an explosively-cut,impressionist sketch about horse racing, reflecting an image of Europeansociety at play in the late 1920s. Bräer(Brothers) Werner Hochbaum was a filmmaker whose career and life weredetermined by the political conditions of Germany under the Third Reich.Bräer, hardly seen at all at the time it was made, was rediscovered in1973 by the East German Film Archives and must now be regarded as themost important of the small group of proletarian films made between 1928and 1932. (These include Mutter Krausens Fahrt Ins Gluck/MotherKrausen's Journey to Happiness, Kuhle Wampe (see October 16), So Ist DasLeben/Such Is Life and Jenseits Der Strasse/Harbor Drift). Unlike theothers, Bräer is a reconstruction of an actual historical event, the1896-97 strike of Hamburg dock workers. Politically aggressive, the filmis at once a tribute to the classic Soviet cinema, especiallyEisenstein, and a remarkable anticipation of neorealism in its unsparingpicture of daily work and of life in wretched tenements, using thepeople of Hamburg as actors.