László Moholy-Nagy Movies

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

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

At the end of the school year, students presented their work in an exhibition. The film begins with the production of wood hand sculptures and...

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...

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

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

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....

Publicity film for Jena Glass.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A city symphony of Berlin.

This film documents one of the end of the year exhibitions of student work from the 1940s. It begins with a collection of abstract sculptures of cast...

In December 1941 shortly after the United States entered World War II, Chicago’s mayor, Edward Kelly, appointed Moholy-Nagy to a committee to...

For several years a children’s class was held at the school on Saturday mornings. Creativity was encouraged, often within the framework of a...