According to Jaroslav Anděl's biography of Hackenschmied, in 1930, Hackenschmied created his first film "Bezúčelná procházka" ("Aimless Walk") which inaugurated the movement of avant-garde film in Czechoslovakia. The same year he also organized the Exhibition of New Czech Photography in the Aventinská Mansarda—a showcase for artists of the Aventinum publishing house in Prague—and the first show of European avant-garde films in the Kotva Cinema, also in Prague. He contributed to the illustrated weekly "Pestrý týden" and also published a number of articles on photography and film, in which he formulated the new aesthetics of both fields.