Icarus Films announced this past week that the
documentary filmmaking team of Niels Bolbrinker and Thomas Tielsch’s will have
their film, Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus,
available in the domestic marketplace on DVD this coming May 7.
Bauhaus, an experimental “art school,” was founded
by Walter Gropius in the aftermath of World War I. 1919, Germany in ruins — financial ruins —
following their defeat in “The Great War,” and out of this despair came the
thought of building cheap, efficient and attractive housing for the masses; the
poor. A different approach, so to
speak, where the building trades and architecture would co-mingle and be
blended with the arts.
Thus “Modern” architecture was born … Walter Gropius,
perhaps did realize that his idea would have far-reaching consequences.
Bolbrinker and Tielsch, not only capture the essence
of the Bauhaus founding and influence, but take us also on an international
journey to discuss the history of the movement … in 1933, the school closed
because of the rise of Nazism and the teachers, students and disciples of
Bauhaus scattered to the four-corners of the world.
Those that contributed to the film through
interviews (and insights) include Rosan Bosch (artist, designer and architect),
Torsten Blume (research associate, artist and choreographer at the Bauhaus
Dessau Foundation), Alfredo Brillembourg (architect and urban designer) and Christian
Loclair (robo-dancer, computer scientist, and choreographer) … among others.
Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus is presented in
German, English and French, with English subtitles where appropriate.
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