Architects' Congress, 1933
Moholy-Nagy's cinematic journal, which recorded the meeting of the CIAM (International Congress of Architecture) in August of 1933. The meeting was held on a yacht that cruised the Mediterranean Sea between Marseille, the Aegean Islands, and Athens. Congress participants included such notables as Le Corbusier, van Eesteren, Giedion, and Leger.
Directed by László Moholy-Nagy
Soundtrack: Silent Film
Film: Black & White
Film Length: 29 minutes
DVD Format: NTSC
Gross-Stadt Zigeuner, 1932
This film documents the daily lives of Zigeuner in their Winter quarters on the outskirts of Berlin, Germany. The film presents insights into the Roma's complex and often tumultuous society.
Directed by: László Moholy-Nagy
Soundtrack: Music
Film: Black & White
Film Length: 11 Minutes
DVD Format: NTSC
Lobsters, 1935
Lobsters, a black & white film narrated by Alan Howard, brings to life the struggle above and below the surface of the sea.
Directed by: László Moholy-Nagy & John Mathias
Cinemaphotography & Editing: László Moholy-Nagy
Narration: Alan Howard, Scientific Advisor: R.J. Daniel, D.Sc
Film: Black & White
Film Length: 16 minutes
DVD format: NTSC
Hattula, 2009
A charming, fictionalized account of a visit that the Soviet director, Sergei Eisenstein, paid to his good friends, László and Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, and their little daughter, Hattula, in 1933. They discuss the difficulty of artistic creation in repressive times and the problems connected with emigration. An extra feature on the DVD introduces the director and the actors, and documents the making of the film.
Directed by: Katrin Beckmann
Soundtrack: Daniel Schulz
Language: German with English and French subtitles
Film: Color
Film Length: 9 minutes plus extras
DVD Format: NTSC and PAL for high definition DVD players only CLICK TO BUY DVD
Berliner Stilleben, 1936
Paints a vivid portrait of Germany's largest metropolis between the World Wars and examines the social and economic climate.
Directed by: László Moholy-Nagy
Soundtrack: Silent
Film: Black & White
Film Length: 9 minutes
DVD format: NTSC
Design Workshops, 1944
László Moholy-Nagy originally shot "Design Workshops" as a silent film to which he lectured when he presented the program of the Institute of Design. Now, after many years, his film can be seen again with an added commentary and music.
The film records students, faculty, and projects of the School of the early 1940s. It animates, as only film can, Moholy-Nagy's two English-language books on Bauhaus education, The New Vision & Vision in Motion.
Directed by László Moholy-Nagy
Commentary: Hattula Moholy-Nagy
Soundtrack: Narration & music
Film: Color
Film length: 36:11 minutes
DVD format: NTSC
Impressionen vom alten marseiller Hafen (vieux port), 1929
The film's subtitle: Impressions of the old Marseille Harbor accurately conveys Moholy-Nagy's intent in capturing the steady hum of commerce, people, and neighborhoods of one of France's largest and most populous port cities.
Directed by: László Moholy-Nagy
Soundtrack: Silent
Film: Black & White
Film Length: 9 Minutes
DVD format: NTSC
Dynamik der Gross-Stadt, 2007
A new interpretation of the famous script that Moholy-Nagy was unable to make himself. In a series of animated images, it presents a contemporary iconography of those aspects of the big city that fascinated Moholy. Cityscapes, advertisements, fireworks, sports, punks, police, and especially machines, stream past within the framework of Moholy’s original layout.
Directed by: Schroeter und Berger
Animation: Sebastian Helm and Max Sauerbier
Soundtrack: Sound
Film: Color
Film Length: 20 minutes
DVD Format: NTSC and PAL
Do not Disturb, 1945
This film was written, filmed, and edited by students of the Motion Picture course of the Institute of Design, Chicago, under the direction László Moholy-Nagy.
Directed by László Moholy-Nagy
Soundtrack: Music
Film: Color
Film length: 20 Minutes
DVD Format: NTSC
Ein Lichtspiel schwarz weiss grau, 1930
The Moholy-Nagy Foundation is proud to present "Ein Lichtspiel schwarz weiss grau" digitally remastered and featuring a rhythmic soundtrack of gamelan music as originally intended by Moholy-Nagy.
This film documents the Light-Space Modulator, László Moholy-Nagy's kinetic sculpture made in Berlin, Germany, in collaboration with Stefan Seboek.
Directed by: László Moholy-Nagy
Soundtrack: Music
Film: Black & White
Film Length: 6 Minutes
DVD format: NTSC
The New Architecture and the London Zoo, 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.
Directed by: László Moholy-Nagy
Assisted by Cyril Jerkins and Hazen Sise
Soundtrack: Silent
Film: Black & White
Film Length: 16 Minutes
DVD format: NTSC.
László Moholy-Nagy - Permanent Experiment
This film covers Moholy-Nagy’s life and career from Hungary to the United States of America. His story is told in films, family photographs, his own work, and historical footage. Of special interest are interviews with people who knew Moholy personally, and who worked with him at the Bauhaus in Germany and at the Institute of Design in Chicago.
Directed by: Jens Schmohl
Soundtrack: Sound
Language: German and English with English subtitles
Film: Color
Film Length: 56 minutes
DVD Format: PAL
