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Satire about German front gardens: A commentary on the coexistence of many well-behaved German citizens, regulated by house rules and assembly resolutions, with special consideration given to their garden "culture." How characteristics such as demarcation, control, narrow-mindedness, and conformity are reflected in the design of gardens.
Observations of gestures, stereotypes, and everyday behaviors. Violence against women is not limited to physical abuse.
The forest kills a person. Running away is pointless, as is hoping for the future. We are not masters of nature, but its prisoners.
ABC alarm. But this time, the decision-makers have nothing to decide. It's not a drill.
You must understand! Turn one into ten, let two go, and make three equal, and you will be rich.
Experimental film about German politics in the early 80s.
The film offers starting points for social learning, enabling peace education appropriate for children.
A short video art piece done in a single shot, depicting a large felt curtain being mechanically raised to reveal a gymnasium. As the curtain is raised, another on the opposite side of the room is dropped.
Early Telscher film.
Documentary about three former political prisoners of the Nazis, featuring lengthy interviews and some historical documents.
She returns from a trip. A different woman than the one she hired as a substitute is working in her shop. This woman took over the shop from her father 40 years ago. In her apartment, where there is nothing to remind her that she once lived there, she encounters an old man.
For a few days now, Carlo has not been feeling so terribly tired. He is slowly beginning to enjoy this fluctuating position between bed and window. The room becomes his cabin again, drifting lazily along with him. However, Peter's unexpected arrival upsets Carlo; the boy's presence annoys him.
Ralph comes to town. His group of friends is one that has decided against acquaintances. Despite the motto "every man for himself," a child is conceived.
A camera expedition to the Sioux Indians of South Dakota. They were driven from their land by the exploitation of mineral resources. Now they live on the edge of the Badlands, a lunar landscape of clay and marl. The film describes red and white, poor and rich America.
Impressions of a day, two people in a big city, she the victim, he the perpetrator. An inexplicable murder.
Film collage on the punk scene in Germany in the early 1980s
This film is the second in a series about new individual sports and promotes pop gymnastics as a healthy and attractive leisure activity for girls and women.
In a village in southern Germany, efforts have been made for some years to facilitate the survival of the barn owl beneficial to the home and the countryside.
In the past, it was common for women to take care of the children and run the household. But did housewives think that was a good thing? And what did the younger generation think of housewives? Did they want to become one themselves?
Short film directed by Giorgis Fotopoulos
Promotional film for a monorail.
Film by Jochen Gerz.
The youngest daughter in the house of a wealthy man is now only called "Cinderella" because since her father has been away, her mother has left her to do all the dirty work. Her two older daughters, on the other hand, are supposed to look after themselves and enjoy life. When their neighbor Kasperl finds out about this, he decides to help the poor girl. With all sorts of mischief, he ensures that the two older sisters stink to high heaven when they are invited to a ball at the prince's. But the youngest is helped even more by a good fairy who enables her to visit the castle. In order to remain unrecognized, Cinderella has to leave the dance at 12 o'clock and loses one of her shoes. The prince, meanwhile, has already fallen madly in love with the beautiful stranger and decides to send Kasperl with the shoe across the whole country. Only the one who fits the dainty thing should become his wife.
The desperate private war of a Vietnam veteran of the US Army. The Film explores the biggest amok run in the history of the USA at that point of time. The story of a mass murder in San Diego on July 18 1984 is told by showing reports of a local TV station. It turns out that the amok was partly caused by traumatic experiences during the Vietnam War.
In a lifelessly drawn world, several people are unable to cope with life, plagued by relationship problems, artistic crises, and political frustrations.
Advertising film for a hotel in Dresden.
Documentary film.
Short educational film about plants.
Drawing on documented historical and contemporary material from two arms factories in the - the town of Oberndorf in Swabia, the documentary reveals the intertwined nature of the idyllic town of Oberndorf and global conflicts with their military confrontations.
Paul and Bruno, twins in their late 30s, run a general store together in a village. The circle of their symbiotic relationship, broken by Bruno's marriage, closes again when the suicide of one frees the other from the compulsion to do the same.
Two villages are to fall victim to the port expansion: Altenwerder and Moorburg. From idyll to horror, the flushing sand is having a frightening effect.
Two years observing the stonemasonry group at Santa Fu (Hamburg Prison).
The indigenous communities in southern Colombia have been fighting successfully for 20 years to reclaim their land and culture. The film paints a picture of this struggle in eight episodes. Due to other planned projects, the filmmakers have asked that their names not be published.
It's always the same in the Elbe, says the mermaid from the Danube Delta. The idea originated in Cologne on the Rhine. It's not easy in the overturned film water, but dreams and hopes remain. They are not easy to understand, but a mermaid does not want to be understood, she wants to whisk you away to her realm.
The film follows in the footsteps of Elvira Hagelstein, a worker from Altona. After imprisonment and torture under the Nazis, she flees to Spain, where she fights in the civil war and rescues many orphans. She later moves to Peru, where she campaigns for political refugees until her death.
75 years without watching television, and then suddenly in color.
A short house squat in the Virchowstraße.
This film is not exactly a documentary; it is a person reading the book while visiting the places where she lived, taking pictures of it in the early eighties. The letters to her daughter, whom she gave away to foster parents in Virginia after Wild Bill had been shot in the back in a saloon in Deadwood, show her in another light: as a woman who clearly understood social taboos of our society and, on one hand, she rejected what society dictated and, on the other, she longed for the bourgeois lifestyle. Many people argued that those were not real, since it was considered to be illiterate. The truth is, she was, and she tried to learn later in life just enough as to write a bare few words, and at times she also employed others in writing things for her.
A short psychodrama exploring a young woman’s introspection. In a still, dark setting, she encounters her second self, leading to a dance of freeze frames. Interrupted by memories and blue-tinted images, she navigates veiled enclosures, seeking self-reconciliation. The dance concludes with her passing through her dark image, ready to embrace the unknown.
On a lonely full moon night, shadows, animal figures, and people gather in a room—a dreamlike narrative about a detective, murder, and victims.
This 30-minute documentary offers a rare glimpse into the fragile beauty of Alchi Monastery, a remote Buddhist site nestled in the highlands of Ladakh, India. Shot by photographer and filmmaker Jaroslav Poncar, the film documents the endangered state of 11th- to 13th-century wall paintings and architectural details, capturing them just before the site drew broader international attention. With a preservationist eye and a deep reverence for cultural history, Save Alchi stands as both a visual archive and an urgent call for conservation. Music composed by Michael Ranta.
Dracula's Diary belongs to the seldom seen genre of horror animations. It is a poetic cry against violence, exploitation and war. Done on a blackboard with chalks.
In the style of a guidebook, the film provides information on healthy movement development in the first year of life, gives tips on how parents can promote this and identifies signs of treatable damage.
We distinguish between continental islands, which are usually parts of the mainland that were detached through tectonic movement, or deposits formed by alluvial soil, and oceanic islands, which are coral-reefs or of volcanic origin.