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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!"
A changing of track. Observations and interviews with border guards and commuters at Berlin’s Friedrichstrasse station in 1990, as the border between East and West Germany was becoming ever more porous and this crossing was already being dismantled.
The most beautiful pictures of a landscape dominated by unique forests: the upper Murtal. It is no coincidence that the Steirische Holzstraße was created here. The video takes you to the most attractive places, shows wood in its many forms and interesting people.
Short film about hospitals.
A heavily-armed robotic flying machine is dispatched on a search-and-destroy mission at night over the city, but its intended target is not easily killed.
Super8 Films (silence): Frankfurt am Main in Germany in 1994 (Ankunft: arrival) and 1996 (Abflug: departure). All scenes were edited in the camera by single frame shooting.
Stop motion animation of chairs, a table and grass set to classical music.
You can see feet and hands in the North Sea water. It comes and goes in a poetical way.
"I destroy an old Super 8 camera for science’s sake." –T.F.
Michael wants to get out of a satanic sect and a world breaks down for his girlfriend Doris. When she tries to kill him in her madness, he kills her in self-defense with an iron. Together with his buddy, the somewhat crazy Frank, they dispose of the body in a forest lake. But there is a curse on the lake and Doris comes back as a murdering zombie. Meanwhile, the Grand Master and her loyal assistant Schröder are after Michael and want to sacrifice him. More and more dead people want to be disposed of and this creates more and more zombies and the sect members also put the two on the skin enormously.
Feature film.
Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.
A group of girls in summer dresses play a game of catch in the Place des Vosges in Paris.
Brahms's "Ein Deutsches Requiem", composed between 1861 and 1868, continues to inspire musicians and audiences to this day. His requiem is addressed to the living, who are to be offered comfort in this world and freed from fear of death. This outstanding performance of "A German Requiem" was recorded in the Grand Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna to mark the centenary of the death of Johannes Brahms.
Mumbi leaves Nairobi for her ancestral village and gets into a quarrel with a Christian women’s group seeking to eradicate the remains of pre-colonial belief systems. Wanjiru Kinyanjui graduated from the DFFB with this smart comedy shot in Kenya.
Documentary film about a hospice and a birthing center.
The Contr-contras are the very last of the ancients and true inhabitants of Gdansk. They are a perfect cross-breed of Germans and Slavonians: slim, beautiful, powerful, and tall (up to 5 metres). Because their species has been safeguarded, they live in a zoo. The Contr-contra couple, Rita and Stan, have a baby. From the beginning, the child causes trouble. In the end, it turns out to be an ambassador of the devil and persuades its parents, Rita and Stan, to take drugs. After having beaten them up, the child gives its parents to Brother Lucifer.
Inspired by an event from Hamburg's history, this animated film tells the wondrous adventures of two cabbage roots that are picked up by the mysterious Lohengrin swan and taken to the treasure chambers of the old German emperors.
Life in a tiny countryside village is simple but hard for this couple from a different world.
"From 60 to 0 yeah"
An uncommented but informative study on the short life cycle of pigs—from birth to slaughter.
Portrait of three Jewish children who survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp and grew up in an orphanage near London after the end of the Third Reich. The film attempts to document the memory work of the three 59-year-olds, who have no knowledge of their early childhood, and in doing so is confronted with the problems involved in completing one's own biography.
A short animation.
Once upon a time, the most beautiful girls in the region lived on Rosinenberg, a small hill in Mecklenburg; today, it is home to three single artists. A sensitive, impressionistic portrait of a place and its inhabitants, which dresses its documentary research in the guise of a fairy tale.
A typical night in the big city: a young policewoman finds the first corpse in a private home. Police work is mostly routine, but not at all easy when the colleagues leave you in the lurch or two Indians keep getting in your way while trying to deliver a Coke machine. In the end, the commissioner philosophises about life.
Conversations with prisoners in the Russian labour camps in Pelym and with inhabitants of the surrounding barren region.
The people appearing in the documentary are not Transylvanian Saxons but Deutschböhmen, that is Germans from Bohemia who settled around the Semenic-Mountain (Banat) in the first part of the 19th century. Since the production of the documentary, however, things have changed, not necessarily for the worst. (it could even be the subject for a documentary itself): in some of the villages (formerly) inhabited by the Deutschböhmen, people from Timisoara built their holiday houses, Weidenthal (which is featured in the docu - the Romanian name is Brebu Nou) and Wolfsberg (Garâna) are not completely deserted, the mayor of Garâna (might be known to some Romanians for the Jazz Festival there) is actually of German origin.
A city introduces itself. With its squares, buildings, streets and people.
Also during the weekend continuance of the humid weather. From Sunday atternoon arising clouds with some thunderstorms here and there. The wind blows lightly from Southwest: in the near ot thunderstorms the wind can freshen up gustily.
Young people from all over the world come to Poland to march through the concentration camps in the country.
A Berlinale award nominated short feature.
Anna Beck, a junior doctor, breaks out of her deadlocked relationship with a career-minded lawyer when he puts her under increasing pressure. When she meets Michael, a marine biologist who uses dolphins for therapy, her life seems to change for the better. Shortly after her wedding, when her happiness seems complete, Anna is diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Portrait of director Ishmael Bernal.
Stan Brakhage shows his new films at MoMA in New York. Before that, he said hello to me, Jonas Mekas, Birgit, the Anthology team and others. Later, we return home by metro.
The Russian tricolour is already blowing in the background as Saxony’s Minister President Prof. Dr. Kurt Biedenkopf visits a Soviet armoured regiment on Christmas Eve 1991. Those were truly turbulent times – a few months before, tanks had been rolling across Moscow’s Red Square during the August Coup; only days later, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned.
TV-Documentary
TV movie by Eckhart Schmidt.
Documentary about a waterway in Berlin which used to separate the city into two ideologically opposed areas.
Here the production method was similar to SCHWARZFILM, but white silicone (joint sealant) was applied to the 16mm blank film with the fingers instead. Again, no camera was used, and the film was not reworked.
A television tumbles from the roof and relives the stations of its life one more time.
A faux instructional video teaching the English language to native German speakers.
Siegfried Bergmann, with his oeuvre of around 80 films, is one of the most important German wildlife filmmakers alongside Heinz Sielmann and Bernhard Grzimek. But Bergmann was more interested in the ant lion in the Lausitzer Sands than the lion in the African savannah. What began in the 1960s with fantastic animal observations using special technology soon became a representation of comprehensive ecological relationships and the search for solutions to environmental problems - no easy undertaking in the GDR. All this always with a fresh breeze of humor and playfulness in filmmaking.
The filmmaker portrays himself exploring potentials and limitations of Super 8 with sync sound.
At the end of time. In the heights of the city. The morning toilet is a deadly game. The contract in the cinema. Localization is followed by application. The glimpse succeeds in startling. The power of the object now always goes beyond it.
"Cosmodrome" (= Launch pad for space rockets) is a film about the connection between cinema and cosmos. A revolving globe; the distribution logo of the Universal film studio shows the viewer an act of "initiation" taking place in the cosmos - a key image between cinema architecture and cinematic space.