"Ein Lichtspiel schwarz weiss grau" or "Lightplay: Black/White/Gray" is a 6.5-minute short film from 1930, so this one is already over 85 years old. The writer and director is Hungarian-born filmmaker László Moholy-Nagy, maybe his most known work. The title already gives away what this is about, namely a play with light in different colors. Sadly, the problem here is that there are no colors in this movie in fact. It is a black-and-white film which really hurts the experience here when seeing it as it is completely unimpressive visually. And it is also a silent film, which should not surprise anybody looking at how old it is. In my opinion, this experimental movie was extremely forgettable and I cannot come up with any reason why you should check it out. It certainly did not get me interested in any of the other works by the filmmaker. I also cannot say that the year when it was made justifies the film as there are dozens of better movies from way earlier out there. The best thing about it? The runtime. But I'd still have preferred it at 2 minutes or less. Don't watch.
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