Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg

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

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?

Short film directed by Eckhard Blach

The film portrays life on the Balduintreppe in Hamburg during the 1980s and early 1990s and thus takes us right into the heart of the time of the Hafenstrasse squat, which in many respects was a turning point. It circles the harbor steps, relives the squatters' battles with the police and visits the residents between utopia and the housing struggle.

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.

Neumann made this film as a young lecturer with some students in the visual communication department at the Hamburg Art University. A film about the areas of application of the various microphones.

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?

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

Experimental short directed by Dorothea Grießbach

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.

A family lives in a house in the woods.

An empty bench next to an old farm on a hill. A corridor flooded with light, from which doors lead into different rooms. Two chairs with patterned cushions in front of a woodchip wallpaper. The swinging pendulum of the wooden wall clock, which takes us to different places and times with its rhythmic ticking.

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 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?

In the quiet of a museum, a gaze lingers on a painted scream. Something boils, just beneath the surface.

Last summer we found a photograph on the street. What is to be recovered when the image is given back its movement?