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Jean, a schoolboy who started smoking at the age of 8, talks about his addiction. Jean's smoking career is an example of how addiction develops. In a futile attempt to give up smoking again at the age of 18, Jean comes to the frustrating realization that the addiction has him in its grip.
«A film of a man in drag doing an erotic and eventually nude dance in a gravel pit. Mostly edited in camera, the fey dance is in surprisingly good sync with the music, making it an amusing send-up of Ravels macho rythms». Fred Camper.
Director's short film created during his training at Silicon Studio in Berlin
In this silent short, shot in gritty yet lyrical black and white, a young woman takes a breather in Berlin's bucolic Tiergarten park. Yet as time passes, she grows anxious.
This is the same type of film as the one made in Rotterdam in 1991. I tried to film myself while I was taking a shower, but the steam and fog are the main elements.
24 hours in the life of a person who comes home from work, spends and has spent the night with friends. The day, and the work, begin with murmur and rumor.
"I Wanted to Live" was a 1982 documentary film about drug addiction by Alfred Ninaus. Twelve years later, what has become of the drug addicts? Have they managed to dry out, come clean, and stay that way?
Documentary about black US immigrants in Germany.
"Playing With Water Part II consists of reflections in a pool, shot using an automatic fade out. Playing With Water III: Algae in Maine, U.S.A., dance on the water's surface." —Milena Gierke
Berlin, 1907. In highly influential circles, the increase in the "mixed-race population" in the German colonies is considered a serious threat. Only the provision of a constant supply of German women willing to marry could (according to the almost unanimous opinion at the time) prevent the "Caffeinization of the men in our colonies." Gentlemen from the worlds of commerce and politics, with the active support of their wives, founded the "German Colonial Women's Association," which, from then until 1945, operated as a marriage agency with official support.
This experimental animated film provides instructions for dealing with different realities. Staged in the form of William Burrough's cut-up technique, the plot unfolds on different, parallel levels of perception. In a headquarters, an artificial data hero is created and transported to random locations around the world. The template: a gunman from a newspaper report. The result: 23 dead, a hostage-taking, Super 8 sex, war... Conclusion: "Teach you software well!"
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.
An examination of gender roles in the Philippines and the lives of macho dancers, bar boys, and their customers.
A seven month journey on foot through Italy from the Swiss-Italian border down to Sicily, with a rucksack containing a camera, a tape recorder, and the traveller's tale "A Walk to Syracuse in 1802" by the German author Johann Gottfried Seume. A cinematic essay on travelling, the south and Arcadian longings; on everyday life in Italy in the year of the soccer world cup and the death of Alberto Moravia; on Italian rain and nights in Rome; on the landscapes of childhood and on the fact that strangers are the only exotic in Italy.
A loose series of examples shows typical accident-prone situations involving children and elderly people. The most common causes of reactions that endanger oneself and others are illustrated using staged case studies in such a way that the transfer to other groups of road users is facilitated.
What lies behind those eyes? What does that smile hide? What do models really think about love and life? Original quotes from beautiful people in fashion catalogs prove that even perfect-looking models suffer from heartbreak just like you and me.
1 of 15 cinematic statements from 7 countries collectively known as Alien/Nation.
A little world-machine in a cube of six by six feet. The genesis in excepts: The creation of light, clouds, birds, aeroplanes, of the cow, the planets and the moon. A love story in three acts with a depressing ending.
Clearing the sea of lignite, miners move excavators from one colossal mass to the next, which they strip. They float with dreamlike ease, like lost ships in the sweltering heat of the summer of '94 through Lusatia to the Welzow/Süd open-cast mine. Next to it lies the village of Kausche. It has to go, because the coal still lies beneath Kausche.
A film essay on Ulla Neuerburg, a theater director from Germany, reflecting her work and living in the USA. The visual track of this film was shot in Iceland and in New York City. Formally it's an essay on how sight and sound can influence perception when they are separate from each other.
Documentary about the American architectural photographer Julius Shulman.
The central topic of the interview is the ancient concept of a necessary balance between the dead and the living, which also assumes the notion of a constant potential for force in the world. Müller and Kluge examine this mythical conception of life with reference to personal, historical, and political examples like the father-daughter relationship (Agamemnon and/or Müller himself), East Germans' hopes of finding a place in capitalism, or violence in the middle ages and in the modern period.
A woman on her way from prison, she decides to go on. The reconnaissance of political resistance until present day.
Explores the mobile meanings of language in film with the help of sophisticated telecommunications; an aural/oral offering.
An animated short directed by Daniel Haude and Jim Lacy.
Sex on the metro! The director has taken footage shot in a completely empty compartment on the London underground and married it to the off-camera reading of a pornographic text that includes detailed masturbation instructions for a female rider. The whole sexy trip, driven by musical clinking sounds, is framed by images of a woman in black bandages using a leather whip for self-flagellation. Take a ride on the wild side!
Film by Hans Neuenfels.
An insane man slaughters and massacres people at the FSK.
Abstract forms and music.
The found footage construction of the "Perfect" trilogy shows, in a flickering, pumping screen light, the collision between sexuality and violence in three places.
Short film by Birgit Hein with paintings and texts by Gabriele Kutz.
“17 June 1990, East Berlin. The GDR will exist for another three months. No more time to commemorate all those who stood up in ’53, showed civil courage and were vanquished. This film is dedicated to them.” This is what we hear from offscreen as the film opens, to images of a rally for the victims of 17 June.
A behind the scenes film about the making of Olaf Ittenbach's second feature film, "The Burning Moon." The documentary was sold as a separate videotape from the original film, and features interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and clips from the film itself.
A "life without work" - this is the idea propagated by the "Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany" (APPD). In order to spread its unique political concept and to make the background to its activities appear transparent and credible to the voting public, the APPD commissioned a renowned film production company to create a loose mixture of subliminal propaganda and sympathetic trivialization. The film was also to focus on the glorification of the APPD politicians appearing in the election campaign in order to create the basis for a profitable cult of personality. A film that makes it crystal clear, compelling and, of course, intentional that the mob is on its way to power.
Rosenberg, an elderly Jewish man, returns to Hamburg after 50 years, searching for traces of his youth. On this journey through the past, he encounters members of the Jewish community. But these encounters prove awkward. He remains homeless.
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.
A homage to the Austrian experimental filmmaker Kurt Kren, his two films "1000 Years of Cinema" and "Snapspots" and his way of working; and that with a slight wink.
"Another investigation in camera destruction. This one is more meditative, as it was shot at 64 frames per second." –T.F.
Feature film.
Documentary film.
His prose text "An Attempt at Love", published in 1962, can be classified in the prehistory of the Auschwitz trials and deals with the attempt by the camp supervisors to manipulate two imprisoned Jews to engage in sexual intercourse in order to test sterilization measures.
A cinematic approach to the reclusive painter Joe Hackbarth, who became known as a jazz musician in the 1950s.
Documentary about the Austrian opera director and stage designer Gottfried Pilz.
The fourth installment in the “Maxhütten Cycle” and a continuation of the story of Katrin Hensel, a block-dancer and member of the People’s Chamber.