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Family Struutz lives in Bitterfeld (GDR). After the fall of the wall, they take the opportunity to go on holiday with their car, an old Trabant. They simply want to visit Italy. But there are some incidents during their journey.
Short flicker film by Thomas Mank
The story, which takes place during a few hot summer months, centers on the coming of age of 15-year-old Leo. Leo lives with her half-sister Katharina in an old, dilapidated house in the countryside. Katharina has gone "mad" since the death of her son Max and hears voices. Max's father Frank became a pimp back then. Now he owns a bar and is after Leo. Micki Finch, a handsome man with a dark past, bursts into this fateful constellation. And a bag of cocaine around his neck.
Documentary about the plans of Nazi Germany to dismantle the Polish capital Warsaw.
Today, the Römerstrasse in Italy's Aosta valley, is a significant traffic artery in the center of modern Europe. Nestler's journey explores the moving history of the Aosta valley, which passed through many hands - from the Roman Empire to Burgundian and Frankish kingdoms - until it was acquired by Italy in the 11th century. The now busy motorway, which runs from the Po Valley to the Great and Little St. Bernhard passes, is revealed through the timeless eyes of a historian. At the same time, the documentary sheds light on cultural traditions and contemporary life in the region.
A short film by Deborah S. Phillips.
On the North Sea coast, between the port city of Newcastle and the Scottish border, lies the town of Amble by the Sea. Long, almost untouched beaches, very cold water, rain, few lucrative jobs, a fishing industry in decline, humor, a thick dialect, friendly people. An English region that is being abandoned. Four years ago, fishermen spotted a dolphin near the coast. It was early summer, salmon season. The dolphin found plenty of food and stayed. Children named him Freddie. He made the place famous, and Amble became a tourist destination. Northern England, 1991, a visit to Amble by the Sea above and below the water.
A funny movie where you see Lars and I taking a bath in our dilapidated bathroom.
The conversation begins on the topic of Müller’s plans for new plays. Müller tells us that he has promised to write a libretto for Boulez, and that he wishes to use the myth of Heracles as material for a stage play.
A man contemplates his lifeline and discovers something strange.
Documentary film.
Matthias Müller's SLEEPY HAVEN is explicitly taking up the spirit of Kenneth Anger's FIREWORKS. SLEEPY HAVEN materializes fantasies of an erotic daydream; the film is a cocktail that merges Müller's own shots and found footage like a love act. Nude bodies of sailors are flaring up in flickering solarization effects; they are given an ardent aura of physical desire by this tattooing of the film emulsion. Müller only gradually changes his material metaphors to metaphors of love. But it is not only FIREWORKS the film is alluding to; there is yet another classic shimmering through Müller's imagery: Jean Genet's Un Chant d'Amour.
Eisenstein is celebrated either as the last Leonardo da Vinci of modernity or attacked as Faustus, Faustus who made a pact with the devil. Whichever is the case, neither friends nor foes are able to resist the powerful draw of Eisenstein's work. He was a person of complexity who was understood in very different ways, as a generous cosmopolitan and a stingy hermit, a cynic and yet a highly sensitive, vulnerable being. The film deals with a number of phases in Eisenstein's life, and tries to get away from the orthodox image of him by using new material to shed a different light on his biography.
An anarchist surrealist film.
At Easter 1991, when few could have imagined the xenophobic riots of the following months and years, 28-year-old black contract worker Jorge Joa Gomondai from Mozambique died in Dresden. He was attacked by a group of rioting skinheads and thrown from a moving tram. Or did he jump in panic? The trial against three perpetrators failed to answer this question. His parents in Mozambique are still waiting for an explanation or apology from the city, or for compensation.
The film describes the life of R., a young turk man in Berlin, Germany, who is of the oppinion that he can fly. One day he succeeds in doing so, but no witness is there to testify the situation. Should all his efforts have been for nothing? In the mean time he meets a young woman, L., and temporarily forgets his aim to fly.
Live at Rocknacht, Germany 1996. Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from NewYork City, formed in 1981. In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City. Part of the first wave of American noise rock groups, the band carried out their interpretation of the hardcore punk ethos throughout the evolving American underground that focused more on the DIY ethic of the genre rather than its specific sound. As a result, some consider Sonic Youth as pivotal in the rise of the alternative rock and indie rock movements.
Portrait of the titular road in the german area Ruhrgebiet.
Recorded live at London’s Town & Country Club in February 1992, Barclay James Harvest play a selection of their most popular and timeless classics. Coinciding with the 25th Anniversary of the band’s formation, this live concert is an evocative testament to one of the greatest exponents of British progressive rock. Opening with an extended and haunting rendition of Mockingbird, the guitars of John Lees and Colin Browne blend magnificently on Medicine Man and Play to the World, with Les Holroyd rendering a dramatic vocal performance on the latter. BJH’s more ponderous progressive rock set pieces are pierced by the rousing upbeat guitar-based Life Is for the Living and the crowd pleasing Stand Up.
One of the most complete of the preserved image programs of the Middle Ages, at the same time abstract and full of touching details. The creation story, which begins with the big bang, has perhaps not been recorded more precisely anywhere. Also ingenious is the mosaic of the Alypius portal, in which the transfer of the bones of St. Mark to the building in front of which the viewer stands is depicted. A wonderful archive of the development of European art between 1100 and 1290, in which the Romanesque image is increasingly supplemented by vivid backgrounds and in the “Dream of Moses” a whole landscape is already presented under a romantically lying crescent moon. In addition, you can see in the circular compositions of the domes (with partly already framed picture fields) not only an early form of cinema that reminds of the movement experiments by Marey and Muybridge, but also the prototypes of our DVDs today, a round disc with image storage in mosaic -Pixels. - K. Wyborny
On a rainy day a child folds a paper boat and puts it into a puddle. A heavy downpour leaves the small vessel sinking. Three Gutter Pirates take over the boat.
A retirement-home newcomer resembling a superhero inspires hope in those around him, while trying to maintain his own. A tale of forgotten heroes.
Short film by Anne Hoegh Krohn.
An adventurous group of stewardesses discover the joy of group sex in the bathroom while in between flights.
A documentary about the 23-year-old Turkish woman "Berlin", who lives in the German capital with her parents. Her parents, devout Turkish Arab Alawites, think that her daughter should get married. Despite many attempts of rebellion Berlin can lead not an independent, self-determined life. She would much rather be a stewardess, than to be search by her family a man. Her only hope is to attain through marriage a little more freedom.
Kermet holt seinen Cousin Farrat, der zum ersten Mal Deutschland besucht, vom Flughafen ab und möchte diesem auch prompt seine kriminelle Energie beweisen. Opfer der beiden wird ein Bankier. Unter dem Diebesgut: ein Koffer voller Bargeld, der dem ortsansässigem italienischen Familienklan gehört. Angelo, der Sohn des Dons, wird beauftragt den Koffer mit allen Mitteln zurückzuholen.
A look behind the scenes of Olaf Ittenbach's splatter classic, which was made over a period of four years with a total budget of just DM 180,000. We learn the essentials about the realization of the elaborate special effects and filming, numerous scene excerpts as well as interviews with actors and producers.
Here Müller and Kluge explicitly address a theme that is latently present in many of their conversations: the relation of intellectuals to reigning political power. Given his many writings on Frederick the Great, it is not surprising that Müller begins the discussion with the “love-hate” relationship between the 18th Century Prussian King and the French Philosopher Voltaire. Moving to the 20th Century, the conversation then focuses for the most part on intellectuals and their relationship to totalitarian regimes. An initial sketch of an encounter between the Russian writer Maxim Gorky and Vladimir Lenin in the post-revolutionary Soviet Union segues into a treatment of the German writer Ernst Jünger in the Third Reich (1933-1945). Müller follows this up with remarks about the importance of Jünger for his own thinking as a writer before and after the founding of the German Democratic Republic.
The friends of humanity: the painter, the musician, the poet and the prima ballerina - and all others are the enemies of humanity. -Vlado Kristl
Documentary about German composer Walter Haupt.
A variation on the classic "Carmen" theme, focusing on the character of José, who, as an old man, moves between dream images and reality as he comes to terms with his desperate love for Carmen. The film combines painted backdrops, live action, and animated sequences.
An epic tale about an Italian immigrant family in Germany. With humor and laconic wit, an entire life is told in just a few images. Giorgo received nothing for Christmas in 1962. Twenty-five years later, he makes amends.
"Me in my room in Frankfurt, ca. 1997. I used to throw knives at the painting in the background." –T.F.
For five days a super-8 camera exposed a single frame every three minutes. A film about a carousel, a small harbour, a light tower and about wind, waves, weather and the tides.
Documentary film.
A Super 8 film.
Knittelfeld is a small Austrian Town and looks exactly like an Austrian small Town. Contrary to other Austrian small towns Knittelfeld had to face a challenge. In 1977 the family Pritz moved into Knittelfeld and confronted the town with an unusual degree of suffering, crime and manslaughter. - Sixpack Film
Using films and clips from interviews, the film documents the history of the Israeli state, and in particular, the place of women in Israeli society. Looks at six particular women who emigrated from Tsarist Russia or Poland in the 1920s to "build the country by building themselves."
Unpunctuated sentences appear word by word on the screen, pointing to the temporality of the reading process and the instantaneity of their appearance. Various phrases comment on this fragmentation: "Irritatingly searching for a medium to express the simultaneity of spatial and temporal jumps" or "The concentrated gaze of the female fetishist experiences objects and movements in exactly defined excerpts." The body, too, as another phrase suggests, is split open (aufgesplittert). In this film about seriality, people are referred to as A or G" in their sexual relations with one another.
The influence of Prussian militarism on the Argentine Army, from the visit of Marshal von der Goltz to the present day. The French and American instructors at the War College. Jorge Videla's portrait now presides over the Military College, and cadets express their admiration for him and Hitler's marshals. The eye of German television penetrates our reality, the relentless "crusade against subversion," and the international arms business.
Germany's oldest rock'n'roller lives on welfare in Berlin-Neukölln. He used to be a "star", shook hands with Elvis and performed with the Beatles. Today he lives on the poverty line, but still performs with his band "Jacky and the Strangers". His small but loyal fan base helps him to cope better with the adversities of everyday life.
Only when you thought it was safe to hide in and old, dark house, 'cause a bloody curse will turn your nerves of steel in some sorte of uncontrollable fear!
Three "Wienerlied" singers, Trude Mally, Poldi Debeljak and Luise Wagner, are among the last folk singers who master the almost forgotten art of "tootling". When they are gone, a bit of Viennese musical tradition will disapear forever with them. Their life stories are one-of-a-kind documents of Viennese folk music.
Short film about petroleum
Short film about air.
A man burns down a computer, trinkers around with dynamite and an alarm clock... and mails sinister letters. The man, however, is on a quest for love and understanding.
Documentary about a Roma settlement on the edge of a landfill site in Romania.
Anyone who becomes old and therefore unprofitable apparently belongs in the bin. This ideology is taken at its word. An old man actually ends up on the garbage tip.
Animated short film
A gallery opening from a painting’s perspective. The painting carefully observes the curious characters passing by it. An exchange of perspectives. But a visitor decides to be more than just an observer.
A film about Hilde Döpfner, her mother, and their complex fantasy life. When Hilde seduces Gisela, the butch butcher, and brings her home to mom, the chemistry goes all wrong.
The 15th Vienna District: The downfall and demolish of the old Meisen open-air market where other things took place besides shopping. A camera-eye observes its disappearance, the excavator churns up the old shops, and with it unearths their stories.