
Alongside the Bauhaus, sound film also made its breakthrough: in the 1920s, numerous artists experimented with the new technology. The event presents found objects from the film and sound archives of the past century.
After an introduction to the early history of technical media in the 1920s by Thomas Tode and Martin Reinhart, short films and sound pieces will be performed at the ZKM Cube. These include the experimental sound plates by Edmund Meisel, which make sounds of the industrial age audible, among other things: machine noises, street noises or the »railway ride to the emergency brake«.
There will also be animations by Hanna Nordholt and Fritz Steingrobe, which were created as part of a film production by Thomas Tode and Martin Reinhart, and also Erwin Piscator's »Einfunktionierter Film im Theater« and »Moholy-Nagy kann deine Nase erklingen lassen«. In Hans Richter's first sound film »Alles dreht sich, alles bewegt sich«, the film artist produced a Dadaist soundtrack of the sounds of a fairground.
The original soundtrack of Sergei Eisenstein's »Panzerkreuzer Potemkin« contains the famous music of Edmund Meisel, which he had worked out with Eisenstein. The aggressive soundtrack sets the class struggle to music, with choral singing emphasizing the importance of the collective. »Weekend« by Walter Ruttmann is a film without pictures, which uses the invention of the sound film in a radical way, as it created a primarily auditory medium, a sound collage.
In the 2019 rediscovered film »Tönendes ABC« by Bauhaus professor László Moholy-Nagy, he drew in his own words »with (...) profiles, sequences of letters, fingerprints, geometric signs on the sound film strip«, achieving »surprising sound results«. Also shown are film fragments by Soviet artists Yevgeny Sholpo and Nikolai Voinov.
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