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Documentary about James Ellroy

A film based on a mock trial staged at an art fair in Madrid in February 2007 organized by Anton Vidokle and Tirdad Zolghadr. It playfully raises a number of polemical issues in the world of contemporary art: collusion with the "new bourgeoisie," instrumentalization of art and its institutions, the future possibility of artistic agency, as well as other pertinent topics.

Documentary about Ray Bradbury

The film is based on a scene in Beethoven’s opera Fidelio. The inmates of the Seville prison are kept in dark cells without daylight. Now, for the first time after years, they are allowed to see the sun. Light as a metaphor for freedom.

Four young and highly ideological Berliners turn into a gonzo Eco Guerrilla. Their goal: to get the people to fly less, and somehow find a way to save the planet. Without any money or help from outside, the quartet depend only on their ingenious inventiveness.

A woman is caught by a copy in the act of painting graffiti. She runs from the scene with the cop close behind. Perhaps the police officer knows her own fate when she sets off on the chase. Perhaps she succumbs to the will of the graffiti girl. Clearly, somebody needs to be punished.

A short animation movie directed by Jochen Bomm, Andrea Hiller, Philipp Orgassa and Sebastian Witt.

Determined to wed, a foolhardy old man is tricked by his friends into a sham wedding with an impish widow who turns into a harpy -- which subsequently cures his desire to marry in composer Gaetano Donizetti's famous opera buffa. Baritone Alessandro Corbelli plays the title character in this lush 2002 production also starring soprano Eva Mei and tenor Antonino Siragusa, with maestro Gérard Korsten leading the Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Lirico.

Four-dimensional quaternions (fractals) are visualized by projecting them into three-dimensional space. Instead of modeling objects of human imagination the realm of mathematics is explored. Only the variables of one formula (x[n+1]=x[n]^p-c) were changed. It took me about a year to get an idea of the transformations and shapes which could be expressed by this formula. Almost another year was needed to render the sequences which I decided to use.

Our own 20-minute film documentary accompanied the public relations work of the HIB ("Homosexual Interest Group Berlin") from 1977 onwards, for example at a GDR-wide lesbian meeting in East Berlin in 1978. In the HIB there was a cameraman with his Super8 camera, a recently graduated television director, a script team, an actor, someone to carry the camera tripod and the will to capture our work on film (Peter Rausch). From 1973 to 1979, the "Homosexual Interest Group Berlin" (HIB) operated in the capital of the GDR. Its core objective was to create a counseling and communication center for queer GDR citizens (the term "queer" was not yet a term of the new emancipation movement at the time, but it did form the basis of the HIB's work). Film clips in Super 8 format soon became part of the HIB's presentation. At the time, Bodo Amelang had compiled further clips as independent small film contributions in a "kaleidoscope".

Seven brothers, born between 1929 and 1945, tell the story of their family from Mülheim an der Ruhr in a film studio.

A night in Buenos Aires. Young people between sunset and sunrise, in search of trash, love, justice, a future. Four life lines cross but never touch each other. A portrait of a society in crisis.

A certain degree of influence by the pharmaceutical industry on politics and authorities would not be surprising. The examples of large pharmaceutical companies directly influencing political decision-makers, ministries and authorities are too blatant. And thus decisions were made in favor of the industry. Paid specialists, bought-in experts, influenced politicians - independent decisions do not seem to be a matter of course in the healthcare system. "Profiteers of Fear" sheds light on the entanglements between politics and business.

Dorje Sherpa is seven years old and lives in the small village of Bengka in Nepal. His wish is to finally see the biggest mountains in the world. Together with his father and great-grandfather, he sets off on his first great journey through the land of the Sherpa.

Young children play their favorite classroom game: their chairs in a circle, Miriam whispers something in the ear of the child to her right, who whispers what she hears to the child on her right, and so on around the circle to the originator.

A man enters a dingy bar and sits down. He is hit on by two young women, but only seems to be interested in one of the two. The trio leave the bar and go to the man's house.

The Devil moves into his Viagra years, hoping to find the girl to complete his life, in this atmospheric short. He discovers that blind dates, personal ads and video dating are simply pitfalls along a road of good intentions.

A new epidemic is gripping the country: smoking pot, cannabis per se, is corrupting the youth and no one seems to be able to do anything about it. Is that so? Eventually, the German government comes up with the idea of renting an island in the Mediterranean where all the country's stoners can be shipped off to be self-sufficient on the spot. Steve, who has just been ordered there by his father, soon realizes that not everything is as it seems...

The Halfmoon Files is a film on the complex relationships between politics, colonialism, science and media. A film about gaps, omissions and the construction of history. In short: a ghost story.

A study of Alexander Kluge that also emulates his technique of seeking and linking. Kluge reads aloud, Kluge recounts, including stories from his childhood and youth, from the bombing of Halberstadt, his home town. “What you don’t understand as a child you will contemplate for the rest of your life.” Kluge does this as the author of films, books, TV programs. He has always had several professions at once. He is a legal advisor, director, author, founder of the television production company DCTP, and person in charge of its culture magazines. But if you think that these are all different jobs, you’re mistaken.

Johannes Felsenstein’s production of HANSEL AND GRETEL presents it with every sinister element removed. The children remain in a home setting with their own bed central to the scene and the barest hint of a forest behind, while their father plays the witch as an amiable, totally benevolent figure, not sinister at all, even joining them in the final joyful ensemble. When they sing that the witch is dead, you find that the production contradicts that completely. Taking that unsinister stance means that the opera loses much of its bite. No doubt Felsenstein felt that it would make the piece more accessible for very young children, though many of them relish the sinister element. That said, it is a strong and capable performance, very well conducted and with a cast of good if not outstanding singers. One wonders what Felsenstein meant to convey, just as it is not clear why the central characters should regularly be carrying dolls. A highly individual version of a much-loved opera.

In early 1945, the mother Elisabeth Paetzold flees from the Red Army from West Prussia towards the west with the two oldest of her four sons. Taking all the children at the same time seems too dangerous to her, so she leaves her two youngest in the hope of catching them up later, in the care of grandparents. In post-war Poland, she sets out in search of them, but she no longer succeeds in uniting them all. Only now, in this documentary, a reunion takes place. And there are five stories about the common family history audible that is so incredible, but not rare...

Documentary about the helpers on the world's highest mountain.

Teenager Michael accidentally discovers the hiding place of a recently escaped killer. Although he manages to escape, the killer is determined to kill every witness. Not a good idea for Michael to look for Sthutz among his friends and relatives...

Horst Wendlandt tells the story of his cinematic work since the sixties. The dialogue between the "old and the young filmmaker" creates a fascinating spectrum of German film of the recent past.

short film by Helga Fanderl

From the neighborhood to the suburbs. The Steffen family moves from a rental apartment in St. Pauli to their own home in Allermöhe. Farewell to the alternative scene, the billiard salon, the dance club nights, a certain idea of the city. “Some still do the same as 10 years ago, have only become 10 years older.” Site inspection. Topping-out. Where does the kitchen block go? Feng-Shui-like everything is balanced. Moving into the new house. “You have to stay supple ... Tomorrow the baseboards are coming. "

An {explosive} love story, directed by Lutz Lemke.

During the Football World Cup 2006, people turn into football loving zombies. A satirical hommage to Dawn of the Dead and other horror movies.

Ever frequently, irritations, anxiety disorders, burn-out, depressions, and other psychological illnesses have become a reason for employees to obtain a sick certificate. How are 24/7 availability, multitasking, or the abolition of regular working hours linked to this phenomenon? BURNING WITHIN draws a picture of the globalisation of work and the insecurity caused by it.

Set in a tiny kitchen, the act of cooking is accompanied solely by the John Bock’s exclamations, as the food he attempts to prepare flies up to attack him, staining his shirt and even setting him on fire

The habitual criminal Roby Schmucker is sent to prison for the fourth time. He steadily begins to have confidence in his cell mate Mohammed Hiab. Together they discover the dark scheme the director has to take responsibility for. In the struggle for freedom, Roby Schmucker can bring the head of the institution to his knees.