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The West is alive (Der Westen Lebt) is a highly charged work, a powerful visual metaphor of desire within the symbolism of Western cultural mythology. A man and a woman fighting for a kiss collide on-screen with a repeated film fragment of the thrusting pistons of an oncoming train. The couple's erotic interplay is at once passionate, violent and ironic.
The young Viennese gypsy musician Joshi Szalay travels to India and takes the same route that his ancestors had followed but in the opposite direction. His trip covers Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece, Anatolia and finally the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent. The pop musician encounters gypsies who still retain many of the authentic customs, traditions, morals, taboos, legends and music of their nomadic ancestors.
Some unusually intense meteorological event causes a family to suddenly swap roles. That means that the children are in charge and the adults must obey. Coincidentally, mother’s new admirer, Mr. Droehmbüdel, proposes marriage but when he enters their apartment, he is very surprised by the strange family relationships. With determination her son (Tom) tries to chase him away against constant pleas from his mother and grandmother. But Mr. Droehmbüdel does not give up and is constantly inventing new ways to gain access to his future home.
What happened to mankind? They stopped being afraid of ghosts and now a family of ghosts is afraid themselves. And if that was not enough, a disco is planned to be build above their crypt
Documentary on how the osprey catches its prey. The film shows the search for prey, the launch maneuvers, take-off maneuvers and the fights with the fish.
One after the other... Me and my friend bought all cheep barbies we could afford at Woolworth, lined them up at home and had immense fun making them fall down...
In 1787, Friedrich Schiller published his story about a prince who manipulates, seduces, and ultimately falls victim to a murderous intrigue in Rococo Venice. The prince, an enlightened ruler with a penchant for worldly things, travels to the funeral of his brother, a sometimes mentally confused, generally incompetent, alcohol-addicted good-for-nothing who died in a brawl. Having come to fulfill a tedious duty, the prince falls in love with a mysterious beauty against a romantic backdrop of dreamy gondolas, castles, and masks, and she drives him mad. He, who is usually guided by incorruptible judgment, becomes increasingly entangled in the finely woven web of his invisible enemies from the nobility and clergy. For, despite all reason, it is a matter of succession to the throne and thus of power.
A documentary film showing life in one of Hamburg’s homes for seniors. Over the course of six months, Elfi Mikesch interviewed and filmed the inhabitants, concentrating on a female couple who are spending the rest of their lives together in a close and intimate relationship.
Following the trend for dangdut musicals, such as the successful ones starring Rhoma Irama, Elvy Sukaesih, and A. Rafiq, this film even features a lead actor who looks like Rhoma Irama, and the character also uses a similar name. Herry Irama has always wanted to be a singer. He is fired because he is considered undisciplined. His hard luck worsens when his father kicks him out of the house. Then his first effort to apply for a job in a recording company is rejected and he ends up being a gardene
Thomas Bernhard rarely engaged in on-camera interviews and conversations. However, he was extremely taken with the television films created by Krista Fleischmann and recognized – both confidently and with foresight – their lasting value for posterity: “I feel this portrait is an entirely successful document whose usefulness will grow.”
Documentary about how indigenous culture and the achievements of modern tourism intertwine.
Maik Ude's first movie.
Three movie buffs head out for a night in town.
Hands vigorously pull scraps of paper from an antiquated printing press, while their owner remains invisible. Then Mimi Minus and a razor blade - the incident is still shocking. The shrouded head, wrapped in muslin, reappears, and black paint is daubed over the top ... no image retains its integrity, for each is crossed through, painted, double-exposed, spilt, soiled.
Test images Amusement park, searchlight, precise displacements THE ROLLING FIELD: simulation of the open-air cinema, flying object on the runway Projection onto concrete objects, "disturbed colors" Construction site H-Gate: The H-PROFILE and THE U-PROFILE Maximum permissible total load: "Projection table on meadow, flying piece of grass, switching point pool" Short, dynamic partial films. The DRAWING SHEET is the zero level. Similar to the structure of computer software, the programs = partial films are announced in menu panels. The display lights up. The menu image, which is synthetically pulled out of the screen, reveals the scene that has already begun behind it.
Short film by SCHMELZDAHIN
In this short, cracks appear in the idyllic concept of ‘Heidi in the Alps’. Lisa is eight and spending the summer with her parents in the mountains. But the much-vaunted beauty of nature provides the young girl with little comfort in the sparse Alpine landscape. Instead, it seems eerie. Her father is often away and her mother is always busy with washing and doing the dishes. Lisa watches and fantasises about being far away – ideally in Persia. In the South Tirolean dialect, “kribus krabus” means “topsy turvy”. The “domine” in the title stands for the opposite, for God, control, and power. (Berlinale)
Snapshots from the life of the eccentric Tohm di Roes, who angrily shouts against the philistines with the wild gesture of punk.
Inspired by a visit to the mines of Falun, the film depicts dreamlike movements through a fictional mine, composed of images from several ore mines in Sweden and Germany.
Winter, spring, summer and autumn. Observations in a landscape.
Compilation of cartoons about the character of the "Mighty Mouse".
Experimental short film
Attempting to travel at the speed of light, I fixed one eye on the horizon and cast the other eye towards the sky. Slowly slowly I began slowly I began slowly I began slowly ... round and round ...
Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.
Live footage with three bands: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Crime And The City Solution, Swans. Recorded at Knopf's Music Hall, Hamburg, August 15th, 1987.
Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.
The film combines photographs (stills) and film photography: 118 photographs and 26 film shots in four sections. 1. Vegetation, 2. a woman working on a printing press, 3. close-ups of the faces of a man and a woman, 4. a sequence of movements on the floor performed by a dancer.
Reflections on the medium love: two persons learn to know each other, fall in love, love each other, destroy each other... A jealous lover... love - a condition which ends with itself...
Four seasons in four major European cities form a four-part film cycle. This is the third part about autumn in London.
Documentary about the dangers of toxic waste and its long-term consequences.
Short film about life in the village and what this means for the inhabitants.
"Now the tide is coming: love, money and death" - What is love? What would you do with DM 1 million? What are you afraid of? Six punks and six policemen answers.
The last film footage of Günther Anders, who died in December 1992, consists of a conversation with him about his "career," his position on nuclear power, and his reflections on violence and resistance. The film is intended as a document; only sentences or individual words spoken by the philosopher Anders are repeated, preceded by intertitles, "underlined," and placed in a different context than Anders intended. It is about reflecting on our possible range of actions.
Documentary about a Sinti community in Duisburg, Germany.
An assessment of the situation of Italian private television, which has developed from a regional communication medium into a commercial enterprise.
The view from the living room extends to the facade of a newly born metropolis.
This documentary questions the uses and abuses of food commodities is concerned. The statements of farmers, scientists, traders, and speculators, as well as manufacturers and politicians are assembled to create a comprehensive view of the factors that determined how wheat was cultivated in the United States and how related markets functioned as the 1980s begun. The film takes its title from the wheat futures or contracts used in commodity market transactions, where the contract months include September.
Ernst, 17, tells his American pen-friend about his worries. He is to leave school soon and will have to decide what he to do, a difficult task. An unfortunate incident is not inoppurtune.
Documentary about the "Bundeswehr"
Sabotage acts are committed on the film theaters of a city for no apparent reason. Two secretaries of "Mega Film", which has been damaged by a sabotage act, decide to try to find the saboteurs in order to determine what their motives are.
The police catch Zorro, a small-time crook who is to testify as a key witness in a trial against organized crime. When an assassination attempt is made on him in prison, Zorro is to be given a new identity and the prosecutor decides to let him go into hiding until the trial begins. The experienced and cunning inspector Fütterer is to protect him. The policeman and the crook are now completely on their own and become targets of the criminal organization that starts hunting them. In the process, they become something like friends. When they find out that the public prosecutor is also only using them as bait, they narrowly escape the trap set for them and flee to the Caribbean.
Two women – childhood friends from Lebanon – meet accidentally in a Paris cafe. Eva, a Jew, and Samia, a Muslim, try to reconstruct their friendship from ten years ago only to find that history and politics constantly interfere with their relationship.
Every interior has an exterior. Every exposure is exhibition. My interior/exterior-consumed! Each cadre has a blatant lack of orientation. All questions remain unanswered.
A documentary about new apprentices at the coal mine.
Short film directed by Traudl Kulikowsky