László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts.
Total trailers found: 17
01 January 1933
A film made by the British General Post Office (GPO) in 1933, promoting the automation of telephone exchanges.
17 October 2019
When radical Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy moved to Chicago in 1937, he spearheaded “The New Bauhaus,” a movement descended from the famous German school.
01 January 1933
In this light-hearted experiment, Professor Moholy-Nagy demonstrates differences in sound produced by arbitrary manipulation of the soundtrack.
13 June 1936
The film examines the redesign of various exhibits at the London Zoo. The film was produced for the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Zoological Society of London, England.
30 April 1929
"Impressionen vom alten marseiller Hafen," captures the steady hum of commerce of one of europe's biggest and most populous port cities.
06 September 1944
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy originally shot "Design Workshops" as a silent film to which he lectured when he presented the program of the Institute of Design.
05 September 1935
Lobsters, 1935: A documentary film about lobster fishermen in Sussex, England. It brings to life the struggle above and below the surface of the sea.
01 January 1943
The film skims along close-up head shots of seven day and evening students. It then shows a disassembled bent plywood armchair.
01 January 1943
At the end of the school year, students presented their work in an exhibition. The film begins with the production of wood hand sculptures and delicate wooden plates and bowls produced on a lathe.
10 May 1930
This short film made by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator, an early kinetic sculpture consisting of a variety of curved objects in a carefully choreographed cycle of movements.
31 December 1932
This film documents the daily lives of Roma in their winter quarters on the outskirts of Berlin, Germany.
05 September 1933
Architects' Congress is Lázló Moholy-Nagy's cinematic journal which recorded the 4th meeting of the CIAM (International Congress of Modern Architecture) in August of 1933.
01 January 1942
In December 1941 shortly after the United States entered World War II, Chicago’s mayor, Edward Kelly, appointed Moholy-Nagy to a committee to investigate the possibilities of camouflaging important landmarks and potential targets.
01 January 1940
For several years a children’s class was held at the school on Saturday mornings. Creativity was encouraged, often within the framework of a specific project.
01 January 1943
This film documents one of the end of the year exhibitions of student work from the 1940s. It begins with a collection of abstract sculptures of cast white plaster.
08 September 1945
Do Not Disturb, produced by Institute of Design head Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and his students in 1945, is the perfect encapsulation of this brio.
