Germany 2009
Direction: Kerstin Stutterheim, Niels Bolbrinker
Camera: Niels Bolbrinker
Music: Uwe Krause
Editing: Kerstin Stutterheim, Niels Bolbrinker
Language: German/English with Eng. ST
Length: 104 min.
The opening of the VR exhibition „Virtual Bauhaus“ will take place after the film screening.
The Bauhaus school has been and still is the most influential art School not only in Europe. Till today the Bauhaus is remembered to be the nucleus of modern architecture and design. But bauhaus was more than a cubic building or a steel tube chair. It is a model till today. Bauhaus-teachers have been international well known artists as Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee Oskar Schlemmer, the architects Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe.
The documentary shows how the school started after World War I, how it became revolutionary and tells the true story about the closing and the enmeshment of some of the Bauhaus-people during Nazi-Germany.
The film is considered the most far-reaching, critical evaluation of the artistic and political ambitions and influence of the Bauhaus.
Consisting of numerous interviews with former Bauhaus students and archive footage of the time, this film gives a fascinating insight into the spirit of the school and its tumultuous history.
Source:
www.artfilms.com.au
Back
