The Triadic Ballet (1970)

En un apartamento en el tercer piso de un edificio estilo Bauhaus de Tel Aviv era donde vivían los abuelos del cineasta Arnon Goldfinger desde que emigraron a Palestina en 1930 huyendo de la Alemania nazi. Cuando la abuela falleció a los 98 años, la familia acudió a limpiar lo que quedaba en el apartamento; objetos, fotografías, cartas y documentos que no esperaban y que revelaban las huellas de un pasado turbulento y desconocido.La película, que comienza con el vaciado de un piso se convierte en una aventura fascinante, en la que entran en juego inesperados intereses nacionales, una amistad que cruza las líneas enemigas, y las emociones de la familia profundamente reprimidas. Incluso revela algunos secretos que, probablemente, deberían haber permanecido ocultos.

The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give form to this architecture. We follow the journey of Munio, my father, born in 1909 in Silesia, Poland, the son of a tenant farmer of a Prussian junker. At the age of 18, Munio goes to Berlin and Dessau to meet Walter Gropius, Kandinsky and Paul Klee at the Bauhaus. In 1933, the Bauhaus was closed by the Nazis, who accused Munio of treason against the German people. Munio was imprisoned, then deported to Basel. He left for Palestine. Upon his arrival in Haifa, he began a career as an architect and adapted European modernist principles to the Middle East.

Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus was supposed to unite sculpture, painting, design and architecture into a single combined constructive discipline. It is a synthesis of liberated imagination and stringent structure; cross-medial concepts that embellish and enrich our existence, illumination and clarity, order and playfulness. But Bauhaus was never just an artistic experiment. Confronted with the social conditions of that particular time, as well as the experience of WWI, the movement concerned itself with the political and social connotations of design from the very outset. Hence, Bauhaus history is not just the history of art, but also the history of an era that stretches from the early 20th century to the modern day.

The film about Max Bill (1908-1994) moves between the dynamic fields of art, aesthetics and politics. Max Bill was probably the most important swiss artist of the 20th century and the most famous student to come out of the legendary Bauhaus in Dessau. He was an ardent anti-fascist and all his avant-garde work as an artist, sculptor, architect and typographer showed a social responsibility and environmental awareness right through his life. His views have become incredibly topical.

A film in three parts after Oskar Schlemmer's Triadische Ballett (Triadic Ballet).

Bauhaus - The Face of the 20th Century, written and narrated by Frank Whitford, is an art documentary depicting the visual science generated from the outpouring of avant-garde ideas of this innovative educational undertaking.

Documentary on the design and choreography of Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943), an artist and teacher associated with the Bauhaus. After a discussion of his artistic philosophy and goals, illustrated by his drawings, reconstructions of his choreographic works are seen in action, each with a brief introduction.

Original film material from the Bauhaus dances of Oskar Schlemmer.

Short documentary on the reconstruction of the Bauhaus dances of Oskar Schlemmer by Gerhard Bohner.