Moritz William

American film historian, who specialized in visual music and experimental animation. His principal published works concerned abstract filmmaker and painter Oskar Fischinger. He also wrote extensively on other visual music artists who worked with motion pictures, including James and John Whitney and Jordan Belson. Moritz also published on German cinema, Visual Music, color organs, experimental animation, avant-garde film and the California School of Color Music. Moritz was himself a filmmaker, making 34 experimental films during his lifetime. He was a published poet, and two of his plays were produced. Moritz died on 12 March 2004 at Mokelumne Hill, California after a long battle with cancer. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less