
In his avant-garde film »Dynamik der Großstadt« László Moholy-Nagy portrays the endless flow of big city life. It is one of the first attempts in film history to visually capture the manifold moments of movement in a modern metropolis.
The typofoto film »Dynamik der Großstadt« [Dynamics of a Big City] (1921/1922) became part of a new genre that emerged in the 1920s in several places at the same time: die Großstadtsinfonie [The Big City Symphony] (even though Moholy-Nagy's film could only be realized after his death). The curators of the exhibition »bauhaus.film.expanded« Markus Heltschl and Thomas Tode give an introduction to the theme of »Die Großstadtsinfonie«.
The genre was also used by Schroeter and Berger. Their film »Dynamik der Groß-Stadt« (1922/2019) used the graphically exciting template as a starting point for an animation, which was set to music by Jonas Holfeld. In his interpretation of »Dynamik der Großstadt« (1988), Sascha Hardt used Moholy-Nagy's sketch for a video montage. The working group around Andreas Haus at the Berlin University of the Arts implemented the sketch as a 3-screen projection in their interpretation of »Dynamik der Groß-Stadt – Ein filmisches Experiment nach László Moholy-Nagy« (2006).
In addition, excerpts from Walter Ruttmann's »Berlin, die Sinfonie der Großstadt« (1927) will be shown. The Bauhäusler Lore Leudesdorff also played a central role in the production of Ruttmann's film, to which no explicit reference has been made so far. In addition, previously unpublished interviews from the 1980s shed new light on the famous film.
Accompanying program
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- Wed, October 07, 20207 pm
- Intermediality II – Is there a beyond of the media?
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Talk
Online
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- Wed, September 30, 20207 pm
- Intermediality I
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Talk
Online
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- Sun, August 23, 20205.30 pm
- Reform der menschlichen Beziehungen
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Film Screening
Kinemathek Karlsruhe
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- Sun, August 23, 20203 pm
- Das Neue Bauen – Effizienzfieber
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Film Screening
Kinemathek Karlsruhe
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- Wed, July 29, 20206 pm
- The radio and the beginning of mass media & the »Absolute Radio Art«
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Talk
Online
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- Wed, July 22, 20206 pm
- Virtuelle Ausstellungstour: bauhaus.film.expanded
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Guided Tour
Online
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- Sun, May 17, 20206 pm
- Neues Sehen [New Vision]
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Talk
Online
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- Sun, May 17, 202011 am
- Online Workshop: Instant Movie Making
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Workshop
Online
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- Thu, May 14, 20206 pm
- The screening and preservation of historical (Bauhaus) films
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Talk
Online
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- Sun, May 10, 20206 pm
- Film music, silent and sound films
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Talk
Online
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- Fri, May 08, 20204 pm
- Cancelled – Transgressions - Church at the ZKM
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Guided Tour
Lichthof 1+2, 2.OG
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- Thu, May 07, 20206 pm
- Abstract Films: bauhaus.film.digitally.expanded
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Talk
Online
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- Sun, May 03, 20206 pm
- Ella Bergmann-Michel
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Talk
Online
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- Thu, April 30, 20206 pm
- Architectural Films: bauhaus.film.digitally.expanded
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Talk
Online
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- Sun, April 26, 20206 pm
- Symphonie Diagonale Revisited
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Talk
Online
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- Fri, April 24, 20204 pm
- Online Workshop: Instant Movie Making
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Workshop
Online
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- Thu, April 23, 20206 pm
- Political and Experimental Film Essays: bauhaus.film.digitally.expanded
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Talk
Online
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- Sun, April 19, 20206 pm
- Ellen Auerbach. Bauhaus Artist from Karlsruhe I & II
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Talk
Online
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- Thu, April 16, 20207 pm
- Digital Opening: bauhaus.film.digitally.expanded
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Opening
Online
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- Fri, March 20, 20204 pm
- Online guided tour of »bauhaus.film.expanded«
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Guided Tour
Online
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- Sun, February 16, 20206 pm
- Dynamik der Großstadt – zum Ursprung der Großstadtsinfonien
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Film Screening
Vortragssaal
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- Sun, February 16, 20204 pm
- Guided tour with curators
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Guided Tour
Lichthof 1+2, 1.OG
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- Sat, February 15, 20206 pm
- Konkrete Geräusche und Musik der Maschinen
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Film Screening
Vortragssaal
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- Sat, February 15, 20204 pm
- Guided tour with curators
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Guided Tour
Lichthof 1+2, 1.OG
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- Sat, February 08, 20203 pm
- Guided tour with curators
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Guided Tour
Lichthof 1+2, 1.OG
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- Thu, February 06, 20206 pm
- medialounge at six
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Lecture
Vortragssaal
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- Sat, January 18, 20207.30 pm
- ARTE Film Night – 100 Years of Bauhaus
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Film Screening
Medientheater