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The New Bauhaus poster. Courtesy of the studio.
Online Film: The New Bauhaus
September 28, 2020, 12 am - September 30, 2020, 11:59 pm
Please use the link below to purchase a ticket to watch the film online. Ticket purchasers for the online screening will receive a link to watch the film at any time during a one-week window, September 23 through September 30.
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2019, Documentary, 85 minutes
Director/Producer: Alysa Nahmias
In 1937, László Moholy-Nagy came to Chicago to start the New Bauhaus, an art institute that aimed to pioneer the development and dissemination of modern design. The film’s narrative weaves original interviews with archival footage, voiceover, and stylized filming featuring Hans-Ulrich Obrist. The result is a new perspective view of a man who was ahead of his time and is increasingly relevant in today’s contemporary art and design discourses. Following recent retrospectives of Moholy-Nagy’s work at major museums, this film offers a more accessible and intimate, emotional journey through his life and his work as an artist, designer, visionary, and teacher. Moholy-Nagy believed that designing was “not a profession but an attitude,” he brought together art students and design students—something unheard of at the time—and challenged them to look at the world differently.
The screening is preceded by a conversation with executive producer Marquise Stillwell; producer, cinematographer, and designer/animator Petter Ringbom; and co-producer Ashley Lukasik; moderated by András Szántó, author, cultural strategist, and Art Basel Conversations host.
Alysa Nahmias, Director
Alysa Nahmias is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of the Los Angeles-based production company Ajna Films. Alysa’s debut feature, Unfinished Spaces, won a 2012 Independent Spirit Award, numerous festival prizes, and is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Alysa recently directed and produced The New Bauhaus (2019), and her producing credits include the Emmy-nominated and Sundance award-winning Unrest (2017) directed by Jennifer Brea. Her films have been distributed on platforms such as Netflix, PBS and HBO. Alysa is the lead creative advisor for Film Independent’s Global Media Makers Documentary Track, and she is a 2019 Sundance Momentum Fellow.
Online Film: The New Bauhaus
September 28, 2020, 12 am - September 30, 2020, 11:59 pm
Please use the link below to purchase a ticket to watch the film online. Ticket purchasers for the online screening will receive a link to watch the film at any time during a one-week window, September 23 through September 30.
REGISTER TO VIEW THE FILM ONLINE
2019, Documentary, 85 minutes
Director/Producer: Alysa Nahmias
In 1937, László Moholy-Nagy came to Chicago to start the New Bauhaus, an art institute that aimed to pioneer the development and dissemination of modern design. The film’s narrative weaves original interviews with archival footage, voiceover, and stylized filming featuring Hans-Ulrich Obrist. The result is a new perspective view of a man who was ahead of his time and is increasingly relevant in today’s contemporary art and design discourses. Following recent retrospectives of Moholy-Nagy’s work at major museums, this film offers a more accessible and intimate, emotional journey through his life and his work as an artist, designer, visionary, and teacher. Moholy-Nagy believed that designing was “not a profession but an attitude,” he brought together art students and design students—something unheard of at the time—and challenged them to look at the world differently.
The screening is preceded by a conversation with executive producer Marquise Stillwell; producer, cinematographer, and designer/animator Petter Ringbom; and co-producer Ashley Lukasik; moderated by András Szántó, author, cultural strategist, and Art Basel Conversations host.
Alysa Nahmias, Director
Alysa Nahmias is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of the Los Angeles-based production company Ajna Films. Alysa’s debut feature, Unfinished Spaces, won a 2012 Independent Spirit Award, numerous festival prizes, and is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Alysa recently directed and produced The New Bauhaus (2019), and her producing credits include the Emmy-nominated and Sundance award-winning Unrest (2017) directed by Jennifer Brea. Her films have been distributed on platforms such as Netflix, PBS and HBO. Alysa is the lead creative advisor for Film Independent’s Global Media Makers Documentary Track, and she is a 2019 Sundance Momentum Fellow.
