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.

14-year-old Margarita is walking through the streets of a small village in Tyrol. A thunderstorm passes by at dusk and no one is on the streets. She lets herself drift, and through the brightly lit windows she observes the lives of others.

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.

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.

A family lives in a house in the woods.

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.

The in medias res monologue of Margarete during her stay in Buenos Aires questions to what extent, having thoughts in a loop reveals truths or obstructs paths of forgetting. A process which is so essential for the survival of human emotions, just as much as not forgetting.

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.

Memories shape my identity and challenge my soul and body to confront what I am or strive not to be.

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.

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.

An autobiographical and science fiction essay, in the tradition of Marker, whose core of paranoid anxiety has to do with the limits of identity: the concepts of "inside" and "outside" are deconstructed on the basis of diseases and an enigmatic species of silkworms. The familiar and public archival material is no less genius than the use of sound, and not only because of the rain born from the chewing of those tiny beings.

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 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.

A man breaks up with his girlfriend.

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 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.