Opus IV

‘Ruttman’s Opus films, to judge by the surviving fragments, express a dynamic, romantic unfolding of pictorial non-objective drama… Opus IV seems made primarily with cut-outs and drawn hard-edged images that produce sharp, Op-art effects … in which expanding horizontals imply twisting Venetian blinds, and the flickering shapes produce colour after-images on their edges, and positive/negative matting presses the role of the filmmaker as manipulator to the fore.’ – William Moritz, Film As Film.