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Horror short.

A brief portrait of Alfons Spiegel, whose workplace has been Cologne Cathedral since 1949. He used to lead guided tours of the cathedral and operated the bells manually. Today, already of retirement age, he still works one day at the cathedral.

Short film about arthritis

Short film about the German painter Emil Nolde

Sometimes there's more than one bandit, and little fellows can be pretty mean!

Short film directed by Bernd Ziller

Experimental short film directed by Thomas Lauks

Experimental short directed by Thomas Werner

Documentary directed by Lothar Kienzler and Ursula Wieser

Documentary about the anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration on April 9, 1989 in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, which was brutally put down by special units of the Soviet army. 21 demonstrators were killed, hundreds were seriously injured and poisoned.

This video portrait of Nam June Paik was made during Bielický’s studies in Düsseldorf. Paik’s gaze steadily confronts the lens of a camera attached to the iconic Paik-Abe video synthesizer, his face dissolving in the mutating video signal.

In one of his first video studies, Bielický explores the physical limits of video representation. He separates bodily movements into several monitors or lets them be deconstructed through rapid editing and the disruption of the video signal, creating a peculiar type of video-body.

The last few years of collaboration with Schmelzdahin were mainly devoted to the chemical processes during and after the development of the film material. This led to a number of very interesting phenomena such as: shifting of the color balance within individual layers of color, etc.

Scenes from the life of eight Styrian musicians; a collage which is intensified through super-8 images, polaroid photographs, the sound track which includes text citations; not much folk music, much context, sounds of everyday life, work and agricultural machines.

Documentary film and music film from Germany

This video was made in 1986 by residents of Hamburg's Hafenstraßn (St Pauli) and documents their struggle for the occupied houses.

A fairy-tale of the Sorbian poet Jurij Brezan as an allegory of threatened nature dedicated to the Sorbs.

"A film that creates connections between image and text material and whose appeal lies in its fragmentary [...] destructive, strongly associative character; To see the film as a gloomy fantasy of doom, as a difficult poetic puzzle or simply as an idiosyncratic document of a bizarre fantasy is left to the viewer for himself." -Bielefeld Magazine

Jörg Herold eliminates the narrative element from his Super-8 film ‘Körper im Körper' by the use of extreme slow motion, granting the images a substantiality and material quality that is hard to describe. The soundtrack, which consists of a voice speaking the single words ‘house', ‘woman', ‘head' and ‘breath', intensifies the feeling of slowness, heaviness and materiality. The camera seems like a body let loose on its surroundings, concentrating on just a few objects, processes and views as it slowly feels its way around. The voice, in turn, appears to represent a kind of interior dialogue, a ‘body within a body'.

A piece of abstract video art in which split-second snippets of broadcast TV are spliced together to punctuate moments of black and silence, recreating the sense of flipping through channels.

German League of Girls in the Hitler Youth movement. By age 10, all German girls were required to join the BDM. The BDM was the female organization under the Hitler Youth. At age 17 the girls could join the Belief and Beauty movement within the BDM. The primary focus of both movements was special training to become good wives mothers and homemakers. They learned cooking, sewing, child care . They learned all about Germany's leader Adolf Hitler and Nazism. My mother grew up in Nazi Germany and her stories about the BDM were very interesting. The children were not involved in the atrocities that occurred.

It is difficult to suspend a concrete monolith weighing over 300 grams at a height of 95 cm using two chestnut tree trunks and a Yugoslavian hemp rope. Have you ever heard of the annual stone hanging ceremony in the Taunus mountains? No? Then take a look at "Der Stein" (The Stone), where five-year-old Ole Heidekamp will explain what it's all about using scientific terminology.

Kirchi's grandparents talk about the old days, and her grandfather plays the harmonica.

"Stuck out, but not puked" was the movie, so Arnold Schicker. Inventory of an area in sharp-edged, with eye and Ohrenkwinkern produced sound-image scissors. They tell of contradictions, trivialities and petty wars on the garden fence, of a too small world, which filmically exploded finds to new size.

The film follows Jean Claude Diallo, who spent 16 years in exile in Germany, on his journey back to his homeland of Guinea. But his long-awaited return to the land of elephants turns into an adventurous undertaking with an unexpected outcome. The military has brought a bloodless end to the reign of terror of President Sékou Touré, once celebrated as a shining champion of African independence. There is a spirit of optimism throughout the country.

Obituary for a young man.

Lewandowsky's 'Report' is a collage on the eroticism of power. The film consists of 4-5 basic motifs that repeat themselves in cyclic montage. Television images of politicians, ecclesiastical dignitaries, the East German army, military combat jets, and wrecking balls are cut against each other, underlaid with martial industrial music. Again and again, an image is faded in of a woman exposing her breasts. Originally created as accompaniment to a theatrical staging of Shakespeare's tragedy "Titus Andronicus".

Far removed from the officially propagated GDR cultural sector, Christine Schlegel created her very own energetic cosmos on 8mm stock between 1977 and 1986. She painted over or scratched lines and shapes on footage of the dancer Fine Kwiatkowski. She projected painted footage on the dancing body during live performances, enveloping and re-shaping it.

Film by Telscher.

Film by Telscher.

Film by Telscher.

Film by Telscher.

A young boy is getting ready to start school and can't wait till September 1st.

Found material, old home movies, secretly-filmed images of the Berlin Wall, as well as short, staged passages condense into a claustrophobic film poem.

An essayistic documentary about the writer and adventurer Isabelle Eberhardt, who traveled through Algeria around 1900 disguised as a man with a group of nomads.

Educational film about weightlifting.

A Saint Rosalia in an Italian ghetto in New York. Staged sequences and private Super 8 footage left to the filmmaker by her grandfather, who emigrated from Sicily to the USA, come together to form an experimental reconstruction of a crossing.

A good six months of television. Speakers included: Konrad Adenauer, Klaus Barbie, Peter Basseler, Karl Carstens, Lisl Christ, W.C. Fields, Adolf Furler, Heiner Geissler, Trude Herr, Günter Kiessling, Fritz Klein, Ernst-Dieter Lueg, Gerhard Löwenthal....

This essayistic documentary film shows the various cultural traditions of trance that blend together in Brazil in wild abundance: African rites, Native American ceremonies, Christian spiritualism.

A visual attempt to respond to a common human behavior: staring.

Everyone justifies their own armor with the threat posed by the enemy. "Things can't go on like this, at least not for me!" The student and the dropout – in the GDR. The beginning of a love story?

The man lives in his house on the outskirts of a city, alone with his dog. An invitation, combined with a trip, leads on the one hand to the compulsive idea of leaving his property behind, and on the other hand to the desire to free himself from it.

The relationships between Turkish and German teenagers and the freedom of young people – authentic and reenacted.

Searching for traces in the former port district of "Neuhof" after demolition.