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Educational film about the importance of beeing a helpful car driver.

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Müller.

The film was made for the opening of the Filmgalerie Hannover in May 1965. The Filmgalerie was run by Klaus Partzsch, Peter Grobe and the art gallery owner Dieter Brusberg. In polemic fashion, parodying the style of popular-scientific educational films, this film justifies the necessity for film galleries, which are meant to elevate film to a new level: that of art.

A German Film Award silver medal winning short animation.

Short film about traffic rules

Short film about traffic rules

Vlado Kristl's great mini show.

Elmar Hügler captures the preparations for and the actual ceremony of a wedding without commentary.

What do high school girls do on a Saturday at 5 pm? This film outlines how 18 year-olds imagine future happiness.

In 1945, Ernst Machner returns home from the war in his mid-20s. Tuche would like him to weave for a living, but his comrades persuade him to become a young teacher instead.

Short film about balloon rides

This year, the annual bike race will pass the highrise where little Max and Tüte live. It is a very hot day and the two boys try to come up with an idea to refresh the bikers. They finagle a huge water sprayer and all their neighbors get involved. But right at the crucial moment, a cat causes a huge accident and the would-be winner in the yellow jersey gets the worst of it.

A film about the feeling of beeing under attack.

Documentary short about the construction of a subway tunnel in Berlin, using immersed tubes.

Short educational film about broken bones.

Television documentary about former SS-Sturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann which was released just before the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem.

Short musical documentary with Siegfried Franz.

Using numerous experimental techniques, Staimmer combines protest motifs (Easter march in 1966, demonstration with police intervention) with dance interludes in the urban space, band performances in beat cellars, the Frankfurt Opera House (whose demolition he carries out cinematically), found footage and other impressions to form an associative collage. ‘“Eve of Destruction” is a movie song, a way of making films that corresponds to the position of the protest song.’ (Peter Staimmer)

Short "Fragezeichenfilm" about work.

A comedic-erotic retelling of Hansel and Gretel. What makes it especially interesting is the soundtrack, Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky, is recorded backwards to give it a way out free jazz effect.

The power of the political left leans in the village of Bagnolo on the cooperatives. About 82% of the population of Bagnolo is communist. The Mezzadros (sharecroppers) who don't possess anything are members and associates of the Milk- and Wine-Cooperative and are very proud of it.

A German Film Award silver medal winning short documentary.

Experimental short film

Reversal. Backwards in time. A Steak's life cycle, anti-clockwise. The film begins in Tony Morgan's bathroom, with the Beatles, continues with a de-fried steak, which buys some money, Bach's Goldberg Variations and the rebirth (resurrection) of a cow. The film was a consequence of a heated discussion with Daniel Spoerri about English aesthetic of cleanliness and the French aesthetic of shit.

Intimate and alien at the same time, this film conveys the tension of an uncertain relationship. A young woman sits on the bed in a room furnished in makeshift fashion. She shows herself in the mirror, dances and sings: ‘Coca Cola, brown power…’. – ‘In memory of those murderers who became murderers in a society in which everyone is a murderer.’ (Wolfgang Orschakowski)

The spectacular theft of the Olympic flame at the Grenoble Winter Games in 1968 – attested by this documentation – was meant to draw the attention of the press to the 1st Hamburger Filmschau. A three-strong team drove spontaneously into the Alps, lit a cigarette from the Olympic flame, used the cigarette to light an oil lamp, and brought the flame to Hamburg, where it burnt in the foyer of the Kammerlichtspiele during the festival.

FRG 1969 · R+B+K: Irm & Ed Sommer · 9 min.

Structuralized segmentation of body fragments, in various sequential order juxtaposed against the verbal reading of the people’s names. Fragments of heads, backs, knees, genitals, etc. A demystification of the body as such, is the sought for effect.

Landscape photos Cameroon: "Sacha" rubber plantation near the coast, workers tapping the trees and emptying the rubber that has flowed into cups into buckets. Individual processing steps for rubber in a factory. Mechanical processing of cotton harvested in the north of the country. Mechanical extraction of peanut oil. "Edea" aluminum plant.

Industrial film about the production of steel car parts.

Documentary short by Raimond Ruehl about the hard work of salt production.

Educational film produced by the West German army about the dangers of sabotage.

A German Film Award winning short documentary on the ancient walled city of Shibam in modern day Yemen.

A look at American cities and landscapes, as well as footage of a French nudist island.

A 1968 Bavarian Radio documentary about Richard Neutra, his philosophy and his architecture.

Short film about the large fishing boats used in coastal Portuguese villages, rowed by 30 or 40 men and needing oxen to bring their nets out.