Anémic Cinéma
Marcel Duchamp created Anémic Cinéma, a film based on his Rotoreliefs, with Man Ray and Marc Allégret between 1924 and 1926. In her article of the same name as the […]
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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 […]
The Circus
The Circus was produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin in 1928. In this scene, the Tramp runs headlong into a fun house mirror maze to avoid capture by the police, after […]
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] […]
X-rays
Between 1869–1875, English physicist William Crookes developed the cathode ray tube, also known as a Crookes Tube. His and others’ experiments with the application of high voltages to a partially […]
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. 