Bauhaus & Film: The School of Seeing

There is a widespread belief that there are no Bauhaus films. And yet film played an important role in the Bauhaus project. The didactic concept shaped by Walter Gropius was aimed at teaching a "science of seeing". Even if László Moholy-Nagy's ambition to establish a "test laboratory for the art of cinema" was never realized, teachers and students produced a number of filmic works. These ranged from reformist architectural films to abstract films to socially critical reports. Thomas Tode presents the recently published edition of the journal Maske und Kothurn, which he edited, on the topic of "Bauhaus & Film" and in which works that straddle various media are also discussed, such as the use of film clips in theater, light projections, and cinema architecture. He will also be showing films by Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, Ella Bergmann-Michel, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Kurt Schwerdtfeger, Werner Graeff, Heinrich Brocksieper, and Kurt Kranz. (31.1.)