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This video is not about legend making, but about Nazi propaganda. The tone of a Hitler speech contrasts with synthetic images.
Jan 1986
Short-documentary about the squat at Amandastraße 73 in Hamburg.
Jan 1981
Mockumentary film about the alleged son of director Ernst Lubitsch.
Oct 1990
Based on the idea of the "Cadavre Exquit", a literary game of the surrealists, video image and sound pieces were sent on the repeated (postal) journey between Hamburg and Vienna. A bond grew, which was composed of the associations of the artists and the respective ideas of the others, and a story was created that increasingly fell into the line of the absence of others.
Jan 1989
A movie that shows conversations with a friend. It longs for clarity, not necessarily wisdom; he is looking for connections that give him meaning. This film gives reason to think about why young people go to the Hitler Youth in the early 1930s and find what they are looking for there.
In 1995, filmmaker Jens Huckeriede and camerawoman Barbara Metzlaff together with Arne Gleiss go to the former Papagoyen neighborhood on Breiten Straße near the Hamburg fish market. With the help of writing stencils they write the lyrics of the song "An de Eck steiht`n Jung mit`n Tüdelband ..." on the sidewalk. Residents take a position on this, there are voices for, but also against. A passerby remembers the song of the Wolf brothers and sings the first verse.
Jan 1995
The attempt to deal with a magazine format. Topic: Work situations. "We had a binding structure. From the idea to completion four weeks à five working days. The beginning was the 1. May, we finished in time; hence the title. Nevertheless, it is not only the result of a concept, but also the masterpiece of several years of cooperation.
Jan 1991
Two artists, Anne Spengemann and Kay Weber, meet each other drawing. The camera moves further and further away from its viewer's point of view and is part of the drawing at the end.
Jan 1987
With its numerous interviews, the film is an inventory of current forms of resistance. It shows the strength, but also the weakness of the momentary disputes. The story, the practice and the discussion are described in the film – an exciting affair.
The title is hopeful, the rest is different - oppressive sexuality, torture. Where should my eyes look when I have to examine eight hours of adult films a day at work in the film copy factory?
How do blind people perceive the world and which sensory impressions remain hidden from sighted people? The experimental film explores this question in a multi-layered way. A sculptor's workshop, a painting museum and an orchestra become the settings for the richness that the perceptions of the different senses bring with them. Sound and image merge and bring the theme to life.
Oct 1993
The documentary accompanies the history of the district, its renovation and the struggle of the population against the urban development determined by investors. With interviews, productions and detailed observations, a complex picture of the people in Altona is painted.
Jan 1983
In April 1992, ultra-orthodox Jews of the Athra-Kadisha came to Hamburg to demonstrate against the final destruction of the Jewish cemetery. The cemetery, where bones still lie, was to be built on with a shopping centre. The film shows the history of this Jewish cemetery, recalls the former Jewish community in Altona and gives an insight into Jewish religious life and culture.
Jan 1994
The film documents the development of a performance by students from Koszalin/Poland and Hamburg in the former Neuengamme concentration camp. Under the guidance of dancers, musicians and rappers from New York, San Francisco and Hamburg, the young people get involved in this place and its history for five days. Despite initial reservations and openly expressed fears of dancing or singing here of all places, a process begins in which the students of both nations find their own, very moving form of expression to deal with the past.
Jan 2013
Jun 1996
Film about the Hamburg district of Ottensen and the resistance of the residents against the planned renovation. It was shot from 1972 to 1975.
Jan 1975
The small fishing village of Amble by the Sea on the Scottish North Sea coast is struggling with harsh living conditions and dwindling job opportunities. One day, they notice a dolphin feasting on the salmon and instead of moving on, he simply stays on the coast near the fishing village. He is soon christened Freddie and becomes a tourist attraction. Is this the turning point for Amble by the Sea?
Nov 1993
Documentary film essay that links the fate of the New York artist Jimmy Ernst and his parents Max Ernst and Louise Straus with the history of the Augustin printing house in Glückstadt.
Sep 2010
At the beginning of cinematography were a variety of devices and inventions that produced animated images. They meet me today as a colorful group of plastic in the souvenir shop or chewing gum machine. This survival story is documented in the installation “Zu Hundert Jahre Film”; the film documents this installation.
Jan 1993
During an art auction, at which Gerhard Richter's “Abstraktes Bild (H.M.)” is being offered for sale, a photo of a dead man appears on the livestream. A paranormal phenomenon?
Jan 2022