“The intention of the film “Dynamic of the Metropolis” is not to teach, nor to moralise, nor to tell a story; its effect is meant to be visual, purely visual.
The elements of the visual have not in this film an absolute logical connection with one another; their photographic, visual relationships, nevertheless, make them knit together into a vital association of events in space and time and bring the viewer actively into the dynamic of the city”
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Read full text on the pdf of the 1969 english edition.
Read more: Transfiguring the Urban Gray, László Moholy-Nagy’s Film Scenario ‘Dynamic of the Metropolis’ by Edward Dimendberg.
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