Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg

It’s summer and the streets are almost empty in a small town, once the centre of the metalworking industry in former Yugoslavia. People gather at the public swimming pool. Two friends are saying goodbye.

The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall.

The end of a long night or Last Dance?

Scenes from the seminar "Lange Sprechen." Angela Schanelec, HFBK Summer Semester 2024.

Two friends meet again at a Kneipe for their usual Herrengedeck. At the next table, a group plays Schocken, a German dice game. The friends sit quietly, their routine familiar but uneventful.

Five young men ride their bicycles through the city, each of them having a piece of a huge movie advertisement attached to his bike.

Protagonis Alfred D. travels around the world to help people develop themselves and their countries. Just before he gets lost on one of his trips to Antarctica, a friend of his receives a box full of video tapes from Alfred's travels and recreates his life on film.

Do you remember when you knocked your tooth out? Over there on the slide?

This video portrait by Prof. Gerd Roscher and Sünke Michel, Bergmann-Michel's daughter-in-law and photographer, explores the making of Ella Bergmann-Michel's experimental documentary films. It features still photographs from her films, which had not yet been recovered at the time, and handwritten intertitles are commented on by her son Hans Michel.

A single mother experiences an intricate interplay between loneliness, deisre, anxiety, boredom, and dream-like states as she waits for her child to return home from a visit with their father. As the days pass, the mother becomes increasingly restless. She tries to distract herself by engaging in mundane domestic task and indulging in fantasies of romantic connection.

A family lives in a house in the woods.

A property shark wakes up in an empty hotel on the Baltic coast. He knows this place. He had wanted to buy it. But how did he end up in the attic? And who is the dancing girl in the hotel disco?

The life journey of a Pontic refugee from Crimea, as seen through the eyes of his great-granddaughter, two decades after his death.

Short documentary about a Hamburg tenants' initiative that is fighting for its neighborhood.

Anna is milking the cows, Jakob smokes pot, Berni works on a telescope and Ulrike celebrates her birthday. So far, everything is fine in Otto's farm. When Ulrike's coffee cup breaks on the kitchen floor, something dark breaks loose. Sometimes the devil has to take the hindmost.

Short film directed by Eckhard Blach

A transformation in time and space. An extreme stress situation between collapse and silence. The sound is working against the caustic terror. The Guys vs. stone fruits.

Set in a distant and unknown land, the film follows the journey of a young woman named Yssabeau and ventures deep into a culture full of unknown rules and rituals. What kind of creatures are these that Yssabeau encounters? Driven on by her curiosity, she tries to adapt and follow the movements of these strange ‘others’. Her deepest impulses, values and beliefs are all thrown into question. How much of herself can be removed from her before she can no longer call herself "myself"?