Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/08-01-2018 -Event 4

LB1TP3: 10:30 - 18:00: ‘A brief survey of history of Avantgarde Cinema and its relevance for your artistic practice’, lead by Anna Abrahams [Day 1 of 3 -in the large seminar space]===

Monday 8 Jan: Cinema celebrates the Machine Age (Futurism, Constructivism, Bauhaus)
In the 1910’s, the futurists called for an art that glorified speed and violence, one that above all reflected the dynamism of the machine age. Outrage and irony were their motors. Film was the medium that came closest to these artistic ideals - but they made only a handful of them. The only surviving film related to Italian Futurism: is Thais, made in 1916 by Futurist photographer Anton Giulio Bragaglia with the collaboration of Futurist set designer Enrico Prampolini.

Around the same time in the USSR constructivism bloomed. Art, and cinema were inspired by the machine, that would liberate the people from slavery. One of the unforgettable films from that period is the science fiction film Aelita (Queen of Mars) (Yakov Protazanov, 1924).

Between 1919 and 1933 the Bauhaus in the German towns of Weimar and Dessau was a world-famous training ground for aspiring designers and artists who were being steeped in modernist theory. Art and design merged in a revolutionary view on Gestaltung: the idea was to develop new forms for the new citizen in a new (and socialist) world. In addition to constructivist photography, the Bauhaus also focused on the pre-eminent modernist medium of the 1920s: film.day1 of 3 days [in the large seminar space , WH 4.141]