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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.

A documentary about remembering and forgetting 60 years after the Shoa. Contemporary witnesses no longer live, and the author embarks on a search for an artistic strategy to sharpen the perception of the absent. In a labyrinth of memories we see interviews with Ivoné Simon (né. Guggenheim) from Brazil, the sons of the former homeowner Michael and Claus Fritsche as well as the scientists Prof. Dr. Aleida Assmann, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rosenthal and Dr. Claudia Curio and others.

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.

This video is not about legend making, but about Nazi propaganda. The tone of a Hitler speech contrasts with synthetic images.

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?

In 1937, on behalf of Hitler, a competition was announced among the most important architects in Germany. The task was the redesign of the Hamburg Elbe bank. The face of the city was to be moved from the Alster to the Elbe. In addition to Berlin, Linz, Nuremberg and Munich, the Hanseatic city was thus declared a "Führerstadt". Representation and administrative buildings for the party and the private economy were to be created. The architects involved in the project are interviewed. They reflect their activity and function at that time.

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?

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.

Short-documentary about the squat at Amandastraße 73 in Hamburg.

Mockumentary film about the alleged son of director Ernst Lubitsch.

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.

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.

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.

A whimsical depiction of the Hamburg city port (life?).

A woman moves through the water, accompanied by cello tones.

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.

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.

Years ago, SONY advertised with the slogan “The mobile memory”. We fell for it. The memory faded. The starting situation for the film was this crisis: The half-inch magnetic tapes dissolved and could no longer be played, they squeaked when trying to get them to work. We called it the squeak plague. Our archive threatened to disappear. We started talking about the future. How is everything supposed to go on, the whole thing here? Also the question of video or celluloid and whether we still feel like it at all. If you ask a lot, you get a lot of answers. A fan-like montage of images and sounds about the future was created. In search of social reality, the volume is also an answer, but without patent recipes.

In 1922, Max Ernst produced a painting entitled “The Rendezvous of Friends”. In surrealist style, it shows his friends from Paris - including Robert Desnos, Hans Arp, Paul Éluard and André Breton - all avant-gardists. The documentary follows the painting's journey from the artist's easel to the Museum Ludwig.

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?