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.

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.

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.

A man breaks up with his girlfriend.

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.

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

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 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 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.

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"?

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.

Using a collage of found footage, this documentary essay examines humanity's conflicted relationship with fire - tracing its journey from control and mastery to destructive power, reflects on masculinity and the cost of progress and hubris.

Short film directed by Eckhard Blach

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.

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

Two people lost in the woods.

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