Screening + talk
Bauhaus 100
100 years ago, an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauhaus. A century later, its radical thinking still shapes our lives today.
Bauhaus 100 is the story of Walter Gropius, architect and founder of the Bauhaus, and the teachers and students he gathered to form the influential school. Traumatised by his experiences during the Great War, and determined that technology should never again be used for destruction, but instead to save humanity, Gropius decided to reinvent the way art and design were taught. At the Bauhaus, all the disciplines would come together to create the buildings of the future, and define a new way of living in the modern world.
To assist him in this endeavour, Gropius assembled the finest minds and artistic talents of his time, including famed artists Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, who attracted swathes of students from all kinds of backgrounds, hungry for the new innovative teaching methods defined by Gropius in the school’s manifesto.
This event will include a special screening of the documentary, "Bauhaus 100", followed by an in-conversation with the following speakers:
Director: Mat Whitecross
Producer: Alice Rhodes
Executive Producer: Janet Lee
Speakers
Cassian Harrison is Channel Editor of BBC4. Cassian has introduced numerous innovations to the channel, including ‘Slow’ Television, ‘Queers’, ‘Trainspotting Live’ and ‘British History’s Biggest Fibs’, as well as factual series such as Ken Burns’ ‘Vietnam War’.
Alice Rhodes is a documentary producer with experience working across a wide range of productions for TV and cinema. Her recent credits include Keith Haring: Art is for Everybody (BBC Two / PBS) Front Row Late (BBC Two) and Future Proof (C4). Last year, Alice also directed her first short documentary which was commissioned by Sheffield Doc Fest.
Mat Whitecross directed his first feature THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO with Michael Winterbottom, collaborating again on THE SHOCK DOCTRINE a year later. Since then, Whitecross has moved between drama and documentary, from Ian Dury biopic SEX&DRUGS&ROCK&ROLL to feature docs on Oasis and Coldplay, and videos for Jay-Z and The Rolling Stones.
Chair
Deyan Sudjic is the Director of the Design Museum in London. His career has spanned journalism, teaching and writing. Deyan was director of Glasgow UK City of Architecture 1999 and in 2002 he was Director of the Venice Architecture Biennale. Deyan has published many books on design and architecture and was made an OBE in 2000.
Background image | Bauhaus woman with mask, 1926. Erich Consemüller
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