Schwitters’ Bolte + Moholy–Nagy’s Huhn
László Moholy-Nagy designed several theater and film sketches throughout his career by creating collages or, using his term, Photoplastiks. One of these collage sketches – Huhn Bleibt Huhn (Once a […]
Tag Archives: Experimental Film
Lichtrequisit
As Oliver Botar has demonstrated in his Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts, the Lichtrequisit was not conceived to be viewed as a sculpture in itself. It was […]
Color–Light–Plays
While a student at the Bauhaus, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack developed equipment to produce experiments with Farblichtspiele (Color-Light-Plays, c. 1924) on continuous film. In Malerei Photographie Film (Painting, Photography, Film, 1925), Bauhaus […]
Is Time Space?
American inventor and photographer Eadweard Muybridge was commissioned by Leland Stanford, then entrepreneur and horse breeder, later Governor of California, to study the motion of his horses at his ranch […]
Cosmic View
In 1977, American designers Charles and Ray Eames completed their second film under the title, Powers of Ten,[i] based on the book, Cosmic View, by Dutch engineer Cornelius (Kees) Boeke.[ii] […]
Metropolis
After visiting New York for the first time in 1924, Austrian filmmaker Fritz Lang envisioned one of his most celebrated films remarking that “I looked into the streets – the […]
Dynamic of the Metropolis
In a speech made at an informal general meeting of the Royal British Institute of Architects on December 9, 1936, László Moholy-Nagy outlined the spatial concepts that he elaborated in […]
Jodi La Coe, R.A. 