{"id":16945,"date":"2015-06-27T01:09:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T00:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16945"},"modified":"2015-06-27T01:09:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T00:09:22","slug":"lichtspiel-schwarz-weiss-grau-a-film-by-laszlo-moholy-nagy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/06\/27\/lichtspiel-schwarz-weiss-grau-a-film-by-laszlo-moholy-nagy\/","title":{"rendered":"Lichtspiel Schwarz-Weiss-Grau, a film by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ymrJLhSeIlk\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nagy.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nagy.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A beguiling short from 1930 made by the Hungarian artist to demonstrate the patterns of light and shade created by his <em>Light-Space Modulator<\/em> (aka <em>Light Prop for an Electric Stage<\/em>, 1922\u20131930), an early kinetic sculpture. The film could have worked well enough as a series of documentary shots but Moholy-Nagy compounds the effects with superimposition, lens fragmentation and even a brief negative sequence. Watch it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ymrJLhSeIlk\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/01\/21\/ballet-mecanique\/\">Ballet M\u00e9canique<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beguiling short from 1930 made by the Hungarian artist to demonstrate the patterns of light and shade created by his Light-Space Modulator (aka Light Prop for an Electric Stage, 1922\u20131930), an early kinetic sculpture. The film could have worked well enough as a series of documentary shots but Moholy-Nagy compounds the effects with superimposition, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/06\/27\/lichtspiel-schwarz-weiss-grau-a-film-by-laszlo-moholy-nagy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lichtspiel Schwarz-Weiss-Grau, a film by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,2,30,7,41],"tags":[7417],"class_list":["post-16945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-cinema","category-art","category-black-white","category-film","category-sculpture","tag-laszlo-moholy-nagy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4pj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}