The New Bauhaus

The Team.

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The New Bauhaus is directed by Alysa Nahmias. The film is produced by Petter Ringbom, Erin Wright and Alysa Nahmias, and executive produced by Marquise Stillwell, Grace Colby and Lynda Weinman. It’s edited by Miranda Yousef, ACE, and shot by Petter Ringbom.

AN OPENDOX PRODUCTION

 
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FILMMAKERS


Alysa Nahmias  /  Director, Producer
Alysa Nahmias' debut feature documentary, Unfinished Spaces, garnered an Independent Spirit Award, and was selected for Sundance Film Forward. Alysa's producing credits include Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq, Shield and Spear, and Unrest. Her work has been shown the Venice Biennale, MoMA, Sundance, and the Berlinale, and distributed on Netflix, PBS, and HBO. She is a 2019 Sundance Momentum Fellow and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Petter Ringbom  /  Producer, Cinematographer
Petter’s debut feature documentary, The Russian Winter, followed musician John Forté’s Russian odyssey after release from prison. His film, Shield and Spear, examined freedom of expression in South Africa. Petter’s films have screened at Tribeca, IDFA, Hot Docs, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Gothenburg Intl. Film Festival and Moscow Intl. Film Festival. He has been a Film Independent Fellow, a Gotland Film Lab Resident at the Ingmar Bergman Estate and a Berlinale Talent.

Erin Wright  /  Producer
Erin Wright is a producer and Director of Artist Initiatives at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Her twenty years of experience in the art world at Sotheby’s, Lannan Foundation, Gagosian Gallery, and LACMA has culminated as a producer of projects with artists and filmmakers. She has been producing documentary films about artists and their work for almost a decade, including films on John Baldessari, Michael Heizer, Robert Irwin, Barbara Kruger, Ed Ruscha, James Turrell, and Peter Zumthor.

Miranda Yousef /  Editor
Miranda Yousef, A.C.E. is a feature documentary editor with credits on films that have played Sundance, Tribeca, PBS and HBO.  Credits include Academy Award winner Morgan Neville’s Troubadours and Academy Award winner Jessica Yu’s film Misconception; Inequality for All. 

Marquise Stillwell / Executive Producer
Marquise Stillwell is a filmmaker, designer and a catalyst for building communities across art and culture. He believes that we can help inform the future of communities by thinking about people first and by building evidence through storytelling. Marquise co-founded Opendox in order to tell lesser-known narratives around art, science, nature, and politics. With Opendox, he produced Shield and Spear, The Limestone Conflict and The New Bauhaus.

Ashley Lukasik / Co-Producer
Ashley Lukasik launched her design career at the Institute of Design executing the vision of design guru and longtime Dean, Patrick Whitney. Ashley has produced multimedia content and experiential programs for corporate and civic leaders around the world to connect design pedagogy with emerging technology and culture. She leads partnerships for Openbox design studio.

 

ADVISORS


Barry Bergdoll / Curator, Department of Architecture and Design 
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Ellen Lupton / Senior Curator, Contemporary Design
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Director, Graphic Design MFA Program
Maryland Institute College of Art

Hal Foster / Professor of Art and Archaeology
Princeton University

Thomas Dyja / Author
The Third Coast

Sharon Johnston, FAIA, and Mark Lee / Architects & Principals
Johnston Marklee and Associates

Hattula Moholy-Nagy / Archaeologist & Daughter
Moholy-Nagy Foundation

Elizabeth Siegel / Curator of Photography
The Art Institute of Chicago

 

SUPPORTERS


Terra Foundation for American Art

David Schwartz Foundation

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

Grace Colby

Lynda Weinman

Walter Nathan

Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown