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Documentary short.

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

At the end of the 19th century, German archaeologist Professor Bohmann is searching for the remains of the legendary island Atlantis. But he is not the only one who is trailing the myth. His adversary, the British scientist Sir Grey claims to have already found Atlantis. In different masks and guises, he sets cunning traps to keep off his adversary from finding Atlantis.

Berlin 1978. The film tells the story of three women who live together and build a jamming transmitter, which they use to highjack the soundtrack of TV news broadcasts. Why they do this is explained through a polemic montage of archival TV footage, which shows how men in leadership positions talk about women and what they do.

Film by Kückelmann.

The film is a summary of the historic Peasant war in Germany 1525.

The last day of work for a 72-year-old fisherwoman and fish seller from Warnemünde. Amid congratulatory gestures and toastes, she tells her life story.

This video is the first in the trilogy The Cologne Tapes, which Davis made in Cologne in 1974, and which was realized in cooperation with the Lijnbaancentrum. On the pavement somewhere on a street, a video camera lies on a light cushion. It lies there staring invitingly at the passers-by.

'It was in San Francisco at a punk festival. I was already high and the air was so thick in the rooms that you could cut it with a knife. I had a photograph camera with me; I stood in a corner of the entrance hall and took 36 pictures on slide film. At home I put the slides into a slide projector. I took out the lens and filmed the slides by filming directly from the projector - using single frames according to a certain plan.'

The film looks at the problems of high school students in an 11th grade class in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. The focus is on interpersonal relationships. The school, the circle of friends, the parental home, the social milieu, the housing situation and leisure activities form the environment in which the young people find themselves on the threshold to adulthood. The film explores their wishes, thoughts, fears, dreams, hopes and conflicts. Opportunities and offers that go beyond school and can be helpful in resolving problems are also shown. It is up to the viewer to weigh up the different views of the interviewees and form their own opinion.

Modernized version of Twelfth Night set in the high living, pot smoking environment of a pop group in the seventies.

Deals with filmic reality and conformity in East and West. Won acclaim at 1976 Edinburgh Festival.

Animated short.

Parody of German schlager stars of the 60s.

A tailor once had three sons who had to look after his goat. But the sneaky animal told the father that he had not been given anything to eat, so the angry man chased one boy after another out of the house. All three sons learned a trade and received a reward.

The initial idea was to make a children’s film about chocolate-covered marshmallows. How they are made, what they are made of, where they are made, who manufactures them under what conditions. The women who work on the assembly line are happy to tell us all about themselves. We are a welcome diversion. We noticed that the men have the better jobs and also earn more money. The women don’t entirely let themselves be taken in by the meritocracy. Talking, goofing off, and singing, they help each other to get through their 8-hour day. We like that. We drop the idea of a children’s film. In this film we tried out a documentary film form that deliberately does without interviews, relying instead largely on the effect of the images. From today's perspective the film alsooffers a glimpse into the history of migration in West Germany.

A documentation of the live Action Ulay performed in Berlin in 1976. It shows step by step his arranged "art theft" of Carl Spitzweg's painting "The Poor Poet" from the Neue Nationalgalerie and his reception in commentaries and reactions from the press.

Two boys aged 9 and 10, Jan and Christoph, want to visit their grandma, who lives in another town. They travel by train, on their own. They buy their tickets, find the right platform and get on the right train. And they know how to behave on the train. So, as expected, the train trip to Grandma's is a safe affair and great fun for the boys.

A short documentary about dealing with people in rent arrears.

A film by Lutz Mommartz

The film is a meaningful collage of images and music.

Docufiction about rent protests in the Märkisches Viertel in Berlin.

A series of six, roughly ten minute body art videos - selected from an original twelve - produced by Friederike Pezold between 1973 and 1977, and originally shown as an installation in 1977. Each video features a part of Pezold's body up close in black-and-white, slowly moved and molded over the runtime.

The life and death of the fictional star Wilma Montesi is reported in the form of a staged newsreel. Excerpts from films of various genres and eras are juxtaposed with "documentary material" about the star's public and private life. By stringing together clichés and cinematic quotations, a certain reporting and narrative style about the glamor and misery of show business is presented in a critical and ironic, but at the same time entertaining way.

German film.

A feature-lengh documentary, shoot on super-8-footage, about the "Umweltfest", a six week long, alternative environmental festival in West Berlin in 1978.

In Canadian-born John Cook’s restless documentary of an Austrian couple, I JUST CAN’T GO ON, the husband Petrus, channeling “Cassius Marcellus Clay,” takes up boxing to supplement the income from his day-job burnishing frames. His companion, the much older Gisi, works as a janitor. They are an odd couple, scavenging at the bottom of the Viennese social ladder. But there is nothing patronizing or exploitative in Cook’s treatment of the couple and their eccentricities as they try to make ends meet. In one of the film’s key aesthetic choices, Cook eschews synched sound in favor of a stream-of-consciousness soundtrack pitting Petrus and Gisi’s unfiltered remarks in relief against the harsh material world.

It is a documentary that shows the work of film workers in the different areas of distribution and exhibition that allow films to reach viewers. In addition, it testifies to the preferences of the cinematographic public in the years of 1983.

This is an attempt of the the filmmaker to make himself useful against mass dismissal of tenants.

The first Hirde Dyama National Festival of Culture of the Republic of Guinea was held in March 1970 in the country's capital city of Conakry. The film features many colorful and diverse performances and highlights the protection of traditional West African cultural traditions and art forms under President Ahmed Sékou Touré.

"Take a circle as big as you want, just come back to the place you started from before sunset. All the land you go around is yours."

A documentary which looks at Heartfield primarily as a political activist working in a specific historical context. It demonstrates this relationship by the use of documentary material, such as archive footage of inter-war Germany, in juxtaposition with Heartfield's works.

The film observes two Italians, the director's parents. The main theme is a balance of over twenty years of life abroad: what were the reasons, goals, desires, etc. of emigration, and which ones have come about? Emigration is a chronicle of two days of their (our) life, with work, leisure time, thoughts.

The film consists of a monologue performed by Walter Sedlmayr, who plays Theodor Hierneis, the chef at the court of Ludwig II of Bavaria. The screenplay was written by Syberberg and Sedlmayr and is based on the memoirs of Hierneis.

Short by Walter Bockmayer