Clik here to view.
Harun Farocki – Zwischen zwei Kriegen AKA Between Two Wars (1978)
Quote:A film about the time of the blast furnances – 1917-1933 – about the development of an industry, about a perfect machinery which had to run itself to the point of its own destruction. The essay...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hans Jürgen Pohland – Katz und Maus AKA Cat and Mouse (1967)
Quote:In 1966, a former gymnast returns to his hometown Danzig, which is now a part of Poland. He begins to reflect on one of his classmates, Joachim Mahlke, who disappeared during World War II....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Herbert Vesely – Das Brot der frühen Jahre (1962)
Quote:Based on the novel of the same title by Heinrich Böll. The young electrician Walter Fendrich has started a promising career. Everything seems to be on the right track. As the future husband of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reinhard Wulf – Amerikanische Landschaften – Unterwegs mit James Benning AKA...
Synopsis:The American filmmaker James Benning has been one of the outstanding exponents of the structural film since the mid-1970s. Bennings artistic position has been strongly influenced by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Alfred Vohrer – Der Mann mit dem Glasauge AKA The Man With the Glass Eye (1969)
Based on the story by Edgar Wallace, this engrossing suspenser follows a Scotland Yard detective as he investigates a string of drug-related murders involving several women and gangsters. Searching...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Heinz Emigholz – Loos Ornamental (2008)
Heinz Emigholz-Loos Ornamental / Photography and Beyond – Part 13 (2008) The film shows 27 still-existing buildings and interiors by Austrian architect Adolf Loos (1870–1933) in order of their...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Heinz Emigholz – Perret in Frankreich und Algerien AKA Perret in France and...
Synopsis:The film PERRET IN FRANCE AND ALGERIA presents thirty buildings and architectural ensembles of the French architects and construction engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret. Auguste Perret has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Klaus Lemke – Amore (1978)
Quote:Maria is in her mid-20s and lives with her father, a widowed small greengrocer, in Haidhausen. Her friend Bärbel is madly in love with the charming Italian Pietro. His father is a vegetable...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Egon Günther – Ursula (1978)
The soldier Hansli Gyr returns 1523 to the “Zürcher Oberland”. The he reencounters the love of his youth Ursula, who is now part of a world renouncing sect, the Anabaptists… Quote:Das...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Peter Sempel – Kazuo Ohno: Ich tanze ins Licht aka Kazuo Ohno: I Dance Into...
This is a wonderful documentary movie about Butoh-dancer-legend Kazuo Ohno.It’s a German movie, so there will be some introductory talk and some voiceovers in German, but the other parts of the movies...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Heinz Emigholz – Parabeton – Pier Luigi Nervi und Römischer Beton AKA...
Synopsis:The film presents 17 extant buildings by Italian master-builder Pier Luigi Nervi in Italy and France and 10 examples of Ancient Roman architecture made of Opus caementitium. Director’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Heinz Emigholz – Airstrip – Aufbruch der Moderne, Teil III AKA The Airstrip:...
About the film:Imagine an airspace into which a bomb has been dropped. The bomb has not reached the site of its detonation, but there is no way to stop its speedy approach. The time between the bomb’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Elfi Mikesch – Mondo Lux – Die Bilderwelten des Werner Schroeter AKA Mondo...
Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. At the time, he was working for the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf gallery on a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Muscha – Decoder (1984)
Decoder, an underground film from the early 80’s has developed to a somehow prophetic cult movie. With an unique engagement of exceptional players, who for the most part play themselves (FM Einheit of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Werner Nekes – Johnny Flash (1986)
Synopsis: The unemployed electrician Juergen Potzkothen (Helge Schneider) lives with his mother (Andreas Kunze) and dreams of happiness as a pop singer. When he presents a demo tape to the artist...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bruce LaBruce – Otto; or Up with Dead People (2008)
Quote:From maverick director Bruce La Bruce comes the horrific and subversive smash of the Berlin and Sundance film festivals – Otto. A young zombie named Otto appears on a remote highway. He has no...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub – Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach AKA The...
Jean-Marie Straub’s 1967 film of the marriage between the widower Bach and Anna Magdalena. The film has a musical structure that is very much like Bach’s own St. Matthew Passion; and Straub uses the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Werner Herzog – La Soufrière AKA La Soufrière – Warten auf eine...
Quote:Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave. Herzog...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bertolt Brecht & Erich Engel – Mysterien eines Frisiersalons AKA Mysteries of...
Karl Valentin plays a journeyman in a barber shop who prefers to stay in bed than to take care of his (already heavily bearded) customers. When he’s at work, he removes boils with hammer, chisel and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Margarethe von Trotta – Die bleierne Zeit AKA Marianne & Juliane (1981)
Quote:Two sisters both fight for women’s rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to...
View Article