Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg

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.

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

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.

A family lives in a house in the woods.

Short film directed by Eckhard Blach

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

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

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.

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?

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 idyllic kitchen scene is suddenly shattered when the cut flower steals the show. In the spotlight of the midday sun, it performs its terrifying melodies—a hellish awakening for the mini cat.

The mythical character "Krahnstöver" is the secret sovereign over the tides in Hamburg, using his oversensitive ear and other measuring devices to control the city's fate

Winter turns into spring, Mirra is coming back home from Berlin to Kyiv after two years in exile. But what to do with all this love inside? But how to express this love to all the people she has met and all the places she has been?

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.

Experimental short directed by Dorothea Grießbach

The story of a racehorse named Zadorny in a film that combines documentary footage with 3D animation. The stallion originates from a stud farm in the east of Ukraine, where Daria’s great-grandfather used to work. By following the paths of Zadorny’s offspring, who compete across the world, Daria explores her personal migration experience and investigates the exchange of resources between Eastern and Western Europe.

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.

A man breaks up with his girlfriend.

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

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"?