The school was far from successful initially, but through its various incarnations, Moholy-Nagy and his New Bauhaus forever transformed design, photography and arts education in America and beyond. 

In Chicago, The New Bauhaus evolved from its origins at the German Bauhaus into an extraordinary flowering of interdisciplinary design pedagogy premised on the notion that “the whole field of contemporary architecture and design must be based upon an indivisible unification of formerly separated and independent fields.”

The film’s narrative weaves original interviews with archival footage, voiceover, and stylized filming. The result is a new perspective view of a man who was ahead of his time and is increasingly relevant in today’s contemporary art and design discourses.