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An experimental biopic that explores the life of Swiss writer Robert Walser. The film deliberately avoids a linear narrative structure and approaches Walser more in the form of a poetic meditation on the life of a poet. Walser is portrayed as a role model for the film's author, who has radically distanced himself from or rejected the grammar and rhetoric of conventional film more than his colleagues.

Short film directed by Vlado Kristl

This film collage is based on Heinrich Heine’s poem "Lorelei". Traditional German postcards were used with images of the siren on the Rhine who lured fishermen and sailors to their death with her beauty and song. The stop-trick was used to film the participants who recite the poem, as well as old beer-drinkers who sing in beer cellars.

Andrees’ graduation project approaches the perky 14-year-old Jacki mainly through her social environment: the stressed patchwork family mother, the solitary long-distance truck driver father, the eclectic neighbourhood. The closer the film gets to its protagonists, the freer the movements of the camera become, gliding through a studio as if in a trance or flying over the nocturnal motorway as if over a UFO landing strip.

An experiment on loneliness in Berlin's sea of houses. A man and a girl roam the streets. Coal carriers, road construction workers and bodybuilders seem to be caught in a time warp of their desires. In an old Berlin pub, the girl goes to get beer for her father and suddenly starts singing a pop song.

Zagreb-born artist Vlado Kristl (1923-2004) was the most radical of the German auteur filmmakers. This is an anakofilm.

The documentary tells the story of the Volksmarinedivision, which was formed by revolting sailors stationed in Berlin during the November Revolution. Starting with the November Revolution itself and the founding of the Volksmarinedivision, the main focus is on the political developments surrounding it and its involvement in the battles for the Berlin City Palace at Christmas 1918 and the unrest in January and March 1919, during which the Volksmarinedivision was smashed by the Freikorps and its members persecuted. Due to its proximity to the Spartacus League and the KPD, which had just been founded at the time, the Volksmarinedivision was an important point of reference for GDR historical politics and the patron saint of the GDR's Volksmarine.

Documentary on the Portugese Carnation Revolution and the following processes of self-organisation in military, factories, argicultural cooperatives and municipalities.

Portrait of 80 year old Gustav J., born in Lithuania, who became a blacksmith and whose paths of life led him to East Prussia, Russia and finally to Germany.

Children of migrant workers talk about the discrimination they experience at school and at work, and about their limited career and training opportunities.

1979 German super 8 short work

Documentary about German leftist terrorists.

Homophobic educational film about sexual abuse.

Rolling into the village: Circus Hein. Angelika Andrees is interested in the individual acts presented in the ring, but even more in what happens before and afterwards. Or what the audience look like from below, when various bottoms are squashed on the wooden benches. Sometimes there’s clacking and knocking, or the pattering of rain, and in the end, Bob Dylan sings. “Travelling Circus” was made when Andrees was still at the Babelsberg Film Academy. She experiments with different elements, switches tones and thus captures the moods crystallising around the travelling attraction. A portrait emerges, without commentary and with very few, short interview sequences.

The only early film by Gernot Eigler to have survived, ASOZIALE was made in 1970 as part of the “Armut in Deutschand” (Poverty in Germany) TV series of the SWF network. Eigler, a Mannheim-born doctor, psychiatrist and specialist in occupational health was encouraged to make provocative, experimental films via his friendships and connections around the film studio at the Technical University of Aachen and the Cologne XScreen group. During breaks from work, Gernot Eigler continued to make films for ZDF and SWF until the mid-1980s. The fact that ASOZIALE has been preserved while the rest of Gernot Eigler’s early works must be considered lost is due to the fact that the film was shown at the Short Film Festival Oberhausen in 1971 and awarded a prize there by the jury of the Filmothek der Jugend. After the festival, a copy remained in the archive at Oberhausen.

A man who adds up columns in his account book at night snaps. This is the story of a breakdown on the threshold of the irrational.

The film about Nam June Paik, the pioneer of video art, provides insight into his multifaceted artistic work and at the same time paints a biographical portrait of the Korean artist.

A documentary film about the citizens' initiatives and protests by various segments of the population in the Federal Republic of Germany against the planned nuclear waste reprocessing plant in Gorleben from 1977 to 1979.

Short film about safe driving

A 1970 TV discussion with Alexander Kluge.

Decades after a 1920s class photo captured their strict teacher and fifty hopeful boys, filmmaker Georg Friedel tracks down surviving classmates born in 1919/20. Through interviews and archival school artifacts, they recall childhood in vanished city streets, revealing a bygone era of “alley boys.”

Hamburg’s most popular neighborhood is undergoing redevelopment. The first blocks of houses have already been demolished, and the demolition crews are pressing on relentlessly. Along with the buildings, some of St. Pauli’s long-time residents will also have to leave. The film also tells the story of the tradespeople, who are likely to be the hardest hit by the modernization.

A film by Fritz André Kracht

A short film

Various shipyards, factories, and industrial sites are shown on 16 mm film, many of which no longer exist: the blast furnace plant, the Flender Shipyard, the huge Villeroy & Boch ceramics factory. The film is a reencounter with them, along with the workers and some of the still-existing companies.

At the documentary film seminar given by Gisela Tuchtenhagen at the dffb in 1979, three documentary portraits of women were made that were combined under the title “Küche, Theater, Krankenhaus” (Kitchen, Theatre, Krankenhaus). Students Lilly Grote, Irina Hoppe and Christine Domkowski took turns at doing the camerawork, sound and editing, supported by film editing lecturer Heide Breitel. [...] Lilly Grote’s film Beobachtungen auf Station 33 was made at the Urban-Krankenhaus hospital in Kreuzberg and doesn’t follow an individual person but rather the patients and nurses there during their everyday work. (Frederik Lang)

Documentary about the work of Peter Nestler

Documentary about film director Marta Meszaros featuring on-set interviews with the director and creative collaborators

Documentary about director Konrad Wolf and the making of his film "Mama ich lebe"

Four young German men are drafted by the military. Elmar Hügler depicts their first weeks in the Bundeswehr.

The film aims to foster understanding for children with disabilities and to warn young viewers against false prejudices.

A film about space research in the Federal Republic of Germany. Space projects, further development of space technology and how these developments can benefit the German economy and change lives are explained.

Educational film about drunk driving.

Short film about the right of way

Experimental film with a doll.

This was the the first film I made with the camerahelmet, after I had meditated for a long time on aggression in the kitchen. – M.R.

(1969/70, 5 min)

The “Helene” narrow-gauge railroad is bought back as a discarded train by members of the Society for German Railway History and painstakingly restored to working order.

The movies follow the Brazilian artist Geraldo Vandré during his exile on Germany in the 70s.

Documentary film.

An erotic composition whose title alludes to the early abstract films of Hans Richter. Two pairs of women’s hands with painted nails stroke and manipulate a vagina in a geometrical, rhythmical game; in between, there is the playing of the hands in hair and fixed compositions of hands and vagina. Monotonous, technical music diminishes the sexual stimulation.

Psychogram of a young person whose domestic security corresponds exactly to the neat opium den that consumer society offers as the only alternative against insecurity, lack of rules and order, i.e. against chaos.

Rushing through time from the limited space of the tram, we are presented a metaphor of how we pass through our lives - only limitedly affected by the significant events that affect us.

A German Film Award winning short feature.

A German Film Award silver medal winning short animation.