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Arthur Robison: Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination ("Shadows - a Nocturnal Hallucin- ation” (‘Warning Shadows’) 1923
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schatten_%E2%80%93_Eine_n%C3%A4chtliche_Halluzination
Expressionism proved to be the most commercially successful of these influences: readily adapta- ble to the Horror, Crime, and Fantasy genres, and launched cinematically by Robert Weine’s 1919-20 Movies (Genuine and The Cabinet of Dr Caligari). The Expressionist influence in exaggerated stage lighting, huge and melodramatic shadows, kaliedoscopic imagery, consciously artificial distorted stage sets, gothic locations, amplified weather, storms, and lightning. Robison’s Warning Shadows (above) is a case in point. Then there’s Robert Florey’s charmingly romantic The Love of Zero:
Robert Florey: The Love of Zero 1927
The heightened expressionist techniques - using split imagery, dis-jointed shadows, low-level stage lighting, zombie-make-up (exaggerated cabaret-style), expressionist painted sets etc were explored by cinematographers and stills photographers...https://vimeo.com/123328217
