Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg

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

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

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.

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.

We follow a young woman through different places in Hamburg - from a visit to an aquarium, through the rain, back home, and finally to the shore.

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

Experimental short directed by Dorothea Grießbach

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"?

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

The women follows a woman's journey to redefine herself after her husband's death, navigating newfound freedom and self-recognition. Inspired by Marta Feuchtwanger, this essay film challenges perceptions of women's roles and relationships.

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.

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

The internet is no longer working due to an accident. People in the city and in the mountains are searching for reception. United in the lack of connection.

The young girls Kate and Echo live in their own land of make believe. When one of them stumbles across the real world, their friendship faces a serious challenge.

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 family lives in a house in the woods.

A man breaks up with his girlfriend.

This documentary explores the lives of the Korean diaspora in Germany, many of whom arrived as nurses and miners in the 1960s to 70s and still reside there today. How have their personal and communal lives evolved?

A journey through the chronology, aftermath and a potential conclusion of a military conflict, as reflected in the topographies that the war, either physically or contextually, shaped and altered.