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Are German women as unhappy as a lot of popular media in the early 1960s suggest? This television documentary wants to find out.

Impressions from the Hamburg harbour with unconventional soundtrack and using a new photographic technique.

The portrait of a young bakery worker in Swabia. A vague desire for something else lurks between her sentences and the images of her everyday life.

short animated film

A documentary following the production of a daily newspaper.

Documentary about the migrant workers, for the german TV.

Directed by Walter Felsenstein in 1969, this production of Giuseppe Verdi's classic opera chronicles the tragic tale of Othello, a Moorish general whose inability to control his feelings of mistrust and jealousy lead to his dramatic downfall. The Berlin Komische Oper Chorus and Orchestra provide musical accompaniment throughout the live performance, which stars Hanns Nocker, Christa Noack and Vladimir Bauer.

The film tells the story of the daily lives and careers of two young people in West Berlin. They got married in Gretna Green, Scotland, where it is possible to do so without parental consent.

Short documentary about a house that will soon be demolished.

A semi documentary short from the early sixties about young people looking for new friends in a club.

The radical consequence of a reductive formal principle. Werner Sünkel uses solely so-called consumables: green leading tape and perforated magnetic tape, which he uses to edit image and sound in alternation. Made at a technical university, ‘Green’ poses as both a parody and a scientific experiment.

Im Schatten des Wohlstandes is about children; their illnesses – if that’s what we want to call them – are civilisational in nature: their parents have to abandon them to keep up with their jobs; frustration is the core of capitalism.

Fritz Kortner performs a monologue.

Schuhmacher and his team spent seven years traveling across all five continents to collect footage of the animal species that are most threatened with extinction, among them the Javan rhinoceros, Hamilton's frog and the birds of paradise.

Short film about two vagrants, their encounter, an argument, and their parting ways.

Libi (1968), whose title is perhaps a punning conflation of “love” (“liebe” in German) and “libido,” begins with an onscreen title: “DIESER FILM ZEIGT WIE DAS LEBEN EBEN SO IST” (“This film shows how life actually is”). We are treated to a blowjob, an umbrella indiscreetly protruding from a man’s ass as he reads the newspaper, anonymous people contorting their asses before each other, and scenes of priests performing sacraments whose moldering ritualism stands in contrast to Müehl’s liberated sexual display. A sign reading “Direct Art” is then pulled away to reveal a close-up penis lurking beneath.

A man and a woman spending an anfternoon seperately.

The short documentary shows a memorial event marking the 20th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald and accompanies Robert Siewert, a former prisoner of the concentration camp, on a tour of the memorial site.

The soldier Martin has been relocated to a small border village in Thuringia. During a storm, he comes to the rescue of Renate, a farmer′s daughter. The two young people fall in love, thereby upsetting Renate′s father who has already promised his daughter to the son of the big farmer Grabow. Henceforth, he does his utmost to tear Martin and Renate apart. Meanwhile, Grabow prepares to flee the GDR with the help of the lance-corporal Zimmer who is indebted to him.

Jewish children perform in an opera written for them, at the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia in 1944, after which they and the composer are sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland where they meet their deaths.

In seven episodes, the biographies and study motivations of six students in higher semesters and four students in their first semester are presented.

Cartoon showing the "Utopes" - talented, unconventional, double-faced creatures. They are split by a uniformed man with a sabre - individually forced into submission by totalitarian ideology.

Short documentary from West Germany.

Irm and Ed Sommer portray 15 artist friends, always filming the same body parts in identical order much in the way a police records department might: feet, knees, genitals, chest, face. At the end, each person signs on a board. Sublime quotes about art and artists contrast with the sight of the naked people, some of them smoking or playing with their genitals.

The process of slaughtering cattle is shown and explained. This taboo subject is to be solved objectively with this work.

Short film about the right of way turn off

A young gas station attendant falls in love with the flower seller across the street. Every day he buys flowers from her until one day his apartment is full of them. So he decides to write her a letter. Because he doesn't really succeed, he tears it up again. He sees no way out but to drown himself, but that doesn't work either...

Using his original 8mm films, but blowing them up to 16mm, he created a collage of images that became his four-part film DÄMONISCHE LEINWAND (The Haunted Screen, 1969), quoting Lotte Eisner’s famous study of Weimar cinema in its title.

A mother wants to buy a bike for her son, but she doesn't have enough money.

A combination of tips on leisure activities, nude photographs and landscape shots.

The film uses slides - photographic planes - which show different surfaces and finishes of a wall, which have been erroded by time. Kren stacks the positives and negatives of these pictures quickly one after the other, so that a moving relief-type structure develops through this combination of "two eyes." A mysterious ambiguous image manifests itself before us, surrounded by all kinds of possible mythological connotations. What is there to see?

A German Film Award silver medal winning short documentary.

The documentary, produced by the General Student Committee of Freie Universität Berlin, documents the brutal police crackdowns on anti-Shah demonstrators, preserves evidence, interviews eyewitnesses, and confronts thugs with film and photographic evidence. Thomas Giefer and Hans-Rüdiger Minow interpret the police assaults as “the first attempts to implement the state of emergency against an extra-parliamentary opposition seeking to prevent it.” The film aims to create a counter-public sphere and calls on viewers to stop the anti-democratic forces and resist.

"I shot this film, Italian Capriccio, as if it were my last. Now I see I had nothing to offer to anybody. No thought, no suggestion, nounderstanding. It is my conviction that this is a way to make this film uninteresting. I hope that Power will get people riled enough some day."

An impressionist-anchored, pop art-driven, surrealist animation about war fears, industrial overdevelopment, and many other civilisational neuroses. A colourful counterpart to Clay & Nordhoff’s probably earlier Hands Up Mr. Rasnichi, which was seemingly little shown and is not even mentioned in any of their currently consultable filmographies. A true discovery.

An experimental short about the isolated, over-civilized man.

A short documentary directed by Karl Deschauer.