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At the end of the 1960s, a young woman laid the foundation of the women's movement. As well as political initiatives against male dominance, a detailed picture was drawn of society, which established the women’s motivation.
In 1709, Johann Friedrich Böttger invented Meissen porcelain while searching for a recipe for making gold. The group "Stern Combo Meißen" pays musical tribute to the inventor. Their performance is accompanied by excerpts from the DEFA feature film "Die blauen Schwerter" (The Blue Swords, 1949, directed by Wolfgang Schleif).
King Crimson's legendary performance at the Alabamahalle in Munich, Germany on the 29th September, 1982.
Misty grey sea; a small island on the horizon; an approaching ship drifts through the picture; neither its origin nor its destination can be determined; just before the ship leaves the rectangle of the screen its journey is stopped by the orange-looking end of the film spool. Such an ending of a film is an impulse for a story about the story-teller, who tells a story without speaking -- and in this way gravity is finally suspended ann one finds oneself again right in the middle of the wood. Of course this is only a fairy tale.
A city is celebrating its birthday. The cinematic collage shows snapshots of a metropolis that can draw on the wealth of a rich and diverse cultural life. Experiences and impressions of a jubilee year with many highlights u.a. the visit of well-known politicians and artists, the Tour de France, the Gymnastics Festival, inauguration of the Chamber Music Hall of the Philharmonic. The eastern part of the city is also shown with its celebrations. Original quotations from various political personalities repeatedly emphasize the unity of Berlin and not the division. The legendary statement of former US President Ronald Reagan in front of the Brandenburg Gate: "Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!". The film ends with excerpts of the birthday show and musical journey through the history of the city at the foot of the Victory Column.
08.04.1988
Short film by SCHMELZDAHIN
Debut documentary film essay and initial film work of Joachim Polzer from 1985. A meditation on what's important in life plus a study in film editing and in human voice montage.
The Annaberger Kät is one of the most traditional folk festivals in the GDR. The film conveys humorous observations and the atmosphere at this fairground, with the camera capturing scenes at the boxing machines, the bumper cars, the lottery and shooting booths from an unusual perspective.
Nestler traces the history of Frankfurt’s Jewish ghetto from the middle ages to the present day.
Two women in Hamburg traffic. The other road users help the two ladies in their artistic endeavors. However, they soon come to regret it. But what wouldn't you do for art?
A poignant documentary about decaying cities, censorship and the oppression of DDR citizens who fought for democracy and freedom.
The film intersperses carefully framed shots of unfamiliar Hamburg cityscapes with silent, close-ups of ballerinas from the Hamburg Ballet, images reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s “Screen Tests”.
Short documentary
Documentary about the Austrian-American writer Charles Sealsfield
Peter Grandits is 78 years old and a retired shoemaker. He gets his tools out - probably for the last time - and makes a pair of woman's boots before the running camera. His product - Stinjačke čižme (Stinatz boots) are known far beyond the borders of the village and are an integral part of the culture of southern Burgenland. Documentary film about the making of hand-made women's boots as well as about the changes in the structure of the economy and family life in the Croatian village of Stinatz in Austria.
Short film by SCHMELZDAHIN
A chair on which a person wearing asbestos cloth has taken a seat is set on fire and then extinguished by firefighters standing by. At the same time, a film that ironically refers to filmmaking.
A documentary on day-to-day life of a small GDR-Brigade in Zimbabwe educating young Africans as construction workers. Best intentions meet exported narrow-mindedness.
Everything is far-fetched: vague images appear. Nothing happens except the happening itself. Puzzle pieces fit together anagrammatically... A film anagram about the myth of the labyrinth, Ariadne, and Minos. While a painter paints the picture of a woman, the woman becomes a victim of her imagination while washing her hair. Her hair becomes an allegorical Ariadne's thread, which gets caught in the labyrinth of her imagination and ultimately becomes the painter's brush.
The foggy November day in Hamburg is not Nowak's day. The Hamburg taxi driver thinks he saw a dead body from "the neighborhood" being taken away in a garbage can. But all he wanted to do was return his son's teddy bear, which he had forgotten during a weekend visit to his divorced father. Suddenly, the taxi driver sees orange vehicles everywhere, and his wife even thinks he has kidnapped their son. He hasn't, so where is Timmy? The police don't want to hear any of it. "Forget it, Mr. Nowak!" Following a hunch, Nowak drives the garbage truck to the waste incineration plant on the outskirts of the city and enters the facility. What he discovers there is not what he expected...
Short film directed by Wolfgang Ramsbott
Short film about nutritional medical advisors
Observations of a man and a dog in a Hamburg street. Mass society did not arise because there are many people today, but because the media turned them into a mass. Death to the spectator would actually mean cutting off the water supply to this mill. Whoever destroys the masses, whoever removes this sense of humanity, has ended the media era.
Peter Krieg documents a journey through the Federal Republic of Germany with his young daughter, during which he explains various concepts to her, such as patriotism, xenophobia, the "religion of the father," and similar ideas. In this way, Krieg confronts the viewer with his very personal, exaggerated, and at times contradictory view of a specific trend in contemporary Germany—a "new patriotism"—and, precisely through his polemic, encourages reflection.
Documentary about a woman writer.
While Pina Bausch was preparing her film The Plaint of the Empress in 1987, the French, British and German co-producers were waiting for a script. No script: no film. That is how the film industry saw things.The discussions dragged on but eventually the TV stations accepted the idea of shooting the film without a script. Someone had the idea of making a "test film" showing what the results of working in Pina Bausch's way could be. That's how this film was born - a documentary on the rehearsals for AHNEN, a piece she was developing at the time. For twenty five years the film stayed in the archives; today it emerges as an extraordinary document. This is how Pina Bausch and her company worked. This is how this work was created, that touched so many people continous to do so today.
A visit to Hans-Joachim Gubisch in Dresden, the father of 600 garden gnomes.
For the documentary series Les Ascensions Célèbres, Denis Ducroz has created this historical reconstruction of the first ascent of the Meije, exploring etymology, physical geography, and the history of the emergence of mountaineering in the Oisans massif. The first ascent of the Grand Pic was made on August 16, 1877, by Emmanuel Boileau de Castelnau with Pierre Gaspard and son; the rope party moved along the Promontoire ridge on the south face to the Glacier Carré, where Jean-Baptiste Rodier, the second porter, separated from the three climbers who managed to overcome ice and granite to open the famous "normal route" to the summit.
Documentary film about a theater project at a school for mentally disabled children. For four months, the film crew observed the rehearsals of the students and teachers.
Portrait of Korean artist Eun Nim Ro (paintings, at work, interviews, "poetic actions").
The film shows a woman swimming from an unusual perspective—underwater. The images are created not in one place, but from constant movement. Movements that immediately convey a sensual, physical sensation. The camera captures the swimmer's movements.
The devil meets death at a crossroads. Together they continue on their way, resulting in a series of incidents. A farmer is executed, two men are incited to commit the deadly sins of "drunkenness" and "lust" – while a final confrontation looms. The Savior enters the scene to put a stop to the troublemakers with two powerful punches.
Two artists, Anne Spengemann and Kay Weber, meet each other drawing. The camera moves further and further away from its viewer's point of view and is part of the drawing at the end.
Two young people get to know each other and are confronted with the topic of HIV infection for the first time.
Performance on the roof of a house.
Admittedly, a cinema seat is more uncomfortable than a bar stool. In a row of cinema seats, a viewer sits with their back to the camera and waits for the film to start. They turn around, see the viewer, and start telling a story...
Fruits and classical music and punks.
In Giarre (Sicily), a male couple is found dead. Realistic scenes and dreamlike sequences are used in an attempt to approach a true story. The possibilities of murder and staged suicide are interwoven as equally probable.
A motion.
Out of the blue, harmless citizens suddenly fall upon their fellow men and brutally slaughter them. The authorities are puzzled. Only Fritjoff Dumpf, a trainee on local private television, uncovers the mystery and takes up the fight against evil
A photo-essay that portrays a group of five Jewish eighteen-year-olds. The young people featured were born in Berlin and attended school there until they graduated from high school. The film explores what distinguishes them from their non-Jewish classmates.
Documentary film about the living conditions and situations of five rural women from Nord-Kehdingen on the Lower Elbe, born before the First World War, whose lives followed a fixed pattern: they were always dependent and poor. A piece of evidence from the past, impressive and moving in the stories told by the old women.
A film about cave drawings from 1990.
One woman reflects on her relationship with men, the other on her relationship with women. However, the actual liaison takes place between verbal material and visual space.
Short educational film about women and computers.
In 1981, the city wanted to tear down the house at Billrothstrasse 55 - the bulldozers were already ready. The house was occupied for a short time, the police appeared and cleared. Afterwards interviews with Walter Seeler (SPD), the then legendary renovation commissioner in Altona, the press spokesman of the SAGA, the construction senator, etc. The house, built in 1857, when Altona was still Danish, was rescued, renovated, yellow facade, blue window frames, a residential project. The filmmakers now live there themselves.
A cinematic interpretation of an ancient myth and the visual metaphor of the feminine sea.
A UFO flies through a German village and an old lady reacts.