László Moholy-Nagy Movies

When radical Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy moved to Chicago in 1937, he spearheaded “The New Bauhaus,” a movement...

A film made by the British General Post Office (GPO) in 1933, promoting the automation of telephone exchanges.

Lobsters, 1935: A documentary film about lobster fishermen in Sussex, England. It brings to life the struggle above and below the surface of the...

This short film made by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator, an early kinetic...

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...

In this light-hearted experiment, Professor Moholy-Nagy demonstrates differences in sound produced by arbitrary manipulation of the soundtrack. The...

A city symphony of Berlin.

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....

Architects' Congress is Lázló Moholy-Nagy's cinematic journal which recorded the 4th meeting of the CIAM (International Congress of...

Do Not Disturb, produced by Institute of Design head Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and his students in 1945, is the perfect encapsulation of this brio....

Between 1940 and 1944, László Moholy-Nagy shot a number of short movies that documented the activities and projects of the design...

This film documents the daily lives of Roma in their winter quarters on the outskirts of Berlin, Germany. The film presents insights into the...

Publicity film for Jena Glass.

"Impressionen vom alten marseiller Hafen," captures the steady hum of commerce of one of europe's biggest and most populous port cities.

The film skims along close-up head shots of seven day and evening students. It then shows a disassembled bent plywood armchair. Various student...