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The Lincoln Library Film Society will screen several short films by László Moholy-Nagy tonight (Tuesday, Nov. 12) at 7 p.m.

While best-known for a career spanning sculpture, painting, and industrial design, the versatile Hungarian-born Moholy-Nagy also did pioneering work in the field of photography, producing short documentaries and abstract films that show the influence of constructivism on his vision. He was forced to leave Germany in 1933, moving to London, and later emigrating to the U.S. as the director of the New Bauhaus in Chicago, which only lasted for one year. He went on to found the Institute of Design, part of the Illinois Institute of Technology, which offered the first PhD in design.

Jubilee Mule will be the featured performers at the next Lincoln Open Mike Acoustic (LOMA) night at the Lincoln Public Library on Monday, Oct. 21 from 7-10 p.m. The group will play a half-hour set starting around 8:30 p.m.

The Lincoln Cultural Council (LCC) has announced that the postmark deadline for organizations, schools and individuals to apply for grants that support community-oriented arts, humanities, and science projects is October 15, 2013. This year the LCC intends to award about $4,250 in grants to multiple recipients. These grants support a variety of artistic projects and…

By the Lincoln Library Film Society To coincide with the Desai Foundation’s Discover India! festival in Lincoln next month, the Lincoln Library Film Society will present “Beyond Bollywood: The Many Faces of Indian Art Cinema.” Every Tuesday in October, the LLFS will screen works from Indian filmmakers that showcase a taste of the country’s output outside mainstream and commercial…

The Lincoln Library Film Society will resume screenings tonight (September 10) at 7 p.m. with another installment of “cinemavericks”—innovative filmmakers who did their own thing and guided the art form beyond its inherited strictures. The LLFS will screen the film work of Forough Farrokhzad (1935-1967), one of Iran’s greatest 20th-century poets. Although she only made one film in her short life, it is considered today to be one of the finest moments in Iranian cinema. The House is Black merges visuals with poetry like no other film has done, configuring searing images of reality to match the lines of Farrokhzad’s beautifully sparse and devastating words.