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Live concert of the German band Unheilig, recorded on March 4th 2004 in Nuremberg, Germany.

In the film “The Da Vinci Time Code” one picture is taken apart in order to create an animated film from its fragments. Different parts of this one picture, based on similar forms, allow us to discover secret movements.The people in the picture eat, dance, discuss and argue, until finally all are silenced. Musik and sound design: Alexander Zlamal

From the neighborhood to the suburbs. The Steffen family moves from a rental apartment in St. Pauli to their own home in Allermöhe. Farewell to the alternative scene, the billiard salon, the dance club nights, a certain idea of the city. “Some still do the same as 10 years ago, have only become 10 years older.” Site inspection. Topping-out. Where does the kitchen block go? Feng-Shui-like everything is balanced. Moving into the new house. “You have to stay supple ... Tomorrow the baseboards are coming. "

Documentary film.

Documentary film.

Germany short film

Short animation film about a man driving through a cityscape.

Will lives illegally in Germany. In a shimmering summer full of light and heat, he meets Julia and Michael. Together they spend an intoxicating night at the lake.

A portrait of the writer Richard Plant. Since he was already so ill during filming that he could no longer appear on screen himself, Alexander Karp portrays scenes from his life.

Fictional documentary about a Himalayan expedition to the summit of Makalu (8461m).

A documentary film about the daily work of two employees of the “task force for reconstruction,” who piece together bag after bag of ripped up state security documents. „Behind an extremely dry-didactic title, you discover a consequently composed and humorous film about german history. It shows how Germany copes with the past and bureaucracy, and you wouldn’t believe it, it’s also about men and women.

6th Chi Sao section (complete), Theory, Preparatory Exercises, Applications, Sequences, Drills, Plus bonus material... Sifu Niko continues his successful Wing Tsun video production with a further series of advanced level videos containing the entire Wing Tsun Advanced Level programs. In the accustomed high quality and forgoing secrecy, the strictly guarded Advanced Level Sections are shown clearly and in detail.

The end of a night. For a moment, the constellations change.

Postman Rolf is quite a shy fellow, but mysterious occurrences force him to take action and become a hero.

Competently as usual and with a lot of visinary energy, Claudio Abbado conducted his LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA at the opening of LUCERNE FESTIVAL, SOMMER 2005. The programm included Beethoven's impressive Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37, with Alfred Brendel as soloist and, as the very heart of the opening programme of SOMMER 2005, Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7.

Snow, fog, clouds—and in the midst of it all, a barely perceptible massif. Or, better yet, a white noise from which contours gradually emerge and just as steadily dissolve back into: As though ghost lights in the digital image-fog that dominates the expanse of this composition. A mountain peak, only vaguely discernible for the longest time, that halfway disappears again the moment it appears.

The documentary portraits three old lesbians: Hannelore Keydel, a former professional runner, Christel Rieseberg, the owner of one of the the first Lesbian bars in Post War Berlin and Wienke Zitzlaff, a political activist though out her life.

Documentary film.

When pimp Frankie and Smurfette march through urban scenes with a groaning trolley suitcase, they excite them - what? The public? Or only yourself? Everyone talks about sex. We talk about the talk about sex. At the conference table sit next to the bizarre cliched team from the red light district a consultant, a social scientist and a Romancienne. Is not that damned cheap?

The film shows without demand to completeness the history of "Ton Steine Scherben", the up to now most influential German rock band and asks, what remained of their commitment for a classless society and the ideas of 1968 at the beginning of the 21st century.

Two Überavian blacksmiths meet on a lazy spring afternoon—romance ensues. Ray-o-grams, springs, feathers and spring-like metal shavings serve as primary source materials. Tinted, bleached, painted and re-photographed, these materials become a study in color and movement set against a soundtrack of both organic and industrial/machine sound.

A Super 8 film.

A young man wakes up after a night of excessive drug use in a completely unfamiliar and surreal environment. His only connection to reality is a shady man who claims to want to show him the truth. This marks the beginning of a terrifying journey into a nightmarish world from which there is only one way out...

LINE OF BEAUTY AND GRACE is a tale about photography and art, family and life, dealing with the history of man and woman, life and art. Many art historians consider Jock Sturges, born in 1947, to be one of the most important fine art photographers of our times. As a catholic and graduated in psychology and photography, he survived the attacks of conservatives in the United States. Sturges has created a series of intensely powerful and moving photographs with an outstanding sensitivity for composition and light. Sturges's artistic work is an uncompromising search for truth and clarity. His private life is marked by his open nature and inspired by the love he shares with his wife Maia. In LINE OF BEAUTY AND GRACE, the filmmaker and photographer Christian E. Klinger journeys into the life and work of this extraordinary man.

Immediately after completing her studies in journalism, the young Penelope Jones becomes a reporter for a local city television station. Her first assignment is to shoot a report on the first Perchtenlauf in 10 years. During her research, Penelope comes across a crime that has long been well-covered up, in which very respected personalities of the city are deeply entangled. Despite all the intimidation and threats, Penelope continues her research. Her sharpest weapons on the winding path of the truth search are plenty of grips, a strong dose of ambition, their unwavering strength of character and a ravishing smile.

Hubert von Goisern: Goisern Goes East

An old oak tree retells its life story: 2000 years of cultural history condensed into just over 10 minutes...

A young woman meets her new neighbor in an unusual way. The idea for this short film was based on a true story.

They were beaten, humiliated, abused, and forced to work hard: children in care homes in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. They were sent to care homes because they did not conform to their parents' ideas of order, morality, and conformity. Sometimes their hair was too long, sometimes it was smoking, sometimes they were considered sexually and morally at risk.

The Yoruba people in particular have always had a strong connection to spirituality. The fact that a mysterious white woman shared their belief in the animistic nature of the world restored the Yoruba people's cultural self-esteem.

The documentary examines the construction of the I.G. Farben factory in Monowitz, also known as I.G. Auschwitz, during World War II. The film follows various leads, including the memories of Dr. Hans Deichmann, the former representative for Italian workers. Interviews with survivors of the Buna/Monowitz concentration camp, a former Italian foreign worker, and Polish villagers offer a variety of perspectives. Despite its title, the film focuses not only on the 'crime scene Monowitz', but also on the masterminds and those responsible at the I.G. Farben corporation.

A film about mobility, human creativity, and technology in a Sudanese truck community. The English Bedford-Lorry was introduced to Sudan in the late 1960s. Since then, local craftsmen technically modify the truck into an ideal vehicle, adequate for traveling off-road and for performing customers’ expectations. The craftsmen and drivers call the lorry “Sifinja” because it is soft and comfortable like the plastic slippers it is named after. In different places in Sudan the carpenters and blacksmiths not only create a shiny iron bride, but they change the whole structure of the lorry through a highly unorthodox performance. Following closely the daily work, art and history of truck-modding on the Nile, a fascinating way of African creativity dealing with global commodities – the automobiles - is opened up. The documentary weaves the original sound of hammering and sawing, drilling and riveting, into a rhythmic, exhilarating audio-visual adventure.

A found-footage film in which time ticks away on the watches of the film industry. They do not just function as dramatic signs for expectation and suspense, but also as icons for the limitation of film (and its shelf life).

The veteran warrior of the Supermegaforce Erwin Braddog sneaks through a forest in Vietnam to surprise his nemesis James Lee while eating bananas. The henchman doesn't take this lying down and throws his magic cape around his neck. A bloody fight, including the use of a corkscrew, is unleashed on that sunny day in 2007...

Being classified as subversive, GDR photographer Harald Hauswald was for many years observed by the STASI under the code name Radfahrer (Cyclist).

Paint and texture and scrawled line drawings, the frames fading into each other. Zooms into the heads of museum busts to retrieve dream-history images from within.