E.K.G. Expositus (the public and the artistic media)
2004 | 101 min | Biography
A hospital in Berlin-Neukölln at midnight. A patient is being admitted. TV journalists are on the scene. The beginning of a story that tells itself.
Bernhard Bieniek
ActorBernhard Bieniek is a German actor known primarily for his work in European film and television. His career includes several notable roles that have earned him recognition in the German entertainment industry. One of his standout performances was in the film "Operation Zucker," where he delivered a compelling portrayal that highlighted his acting range. Another significant role was in the TV movie "Tatort," which is part of a long-running and highly acclaimed German crime drama series. While specific awards for his performances are not widely documented, Bernhard Bieniek’s contributions to German cinema and TV have left a lasting impression on audiences.
Films
E.C.G.1.0.1 (a self-portrait in broadcast and artistic media)
2004 | 24 min | Icons & Media Art
Michael Brynntrup, in his unmistakable style, was already anticipating developments in the media in the early 2000s.
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The Statics - Engineering Memory Bridges (Die Statik der Eselsbrücken)
1990 | 20 min | Icons & Media Art
The short film by director Michael Brynntrup is "a superb biography - a pseudo-scientific collection of curiosities with puns turning artistic somersaults." (Abendzeitung, Nuremberg) Relics and tests from an inquiry into prototypes. Formal proof won through pregnant experiments on one's own body.
Narcissus and Echo
1989 | 14 min | Icons & Media Art
Long seemed invalid the Prophet's word, / But honored it was, by the outcome at last: / How odd the madness, how strange a death! (Ovid, Metamorphoses) NARCISSUS AND ECHO, a short film by Michael Brynntrup, is a “delightfully mannered game of deception, honored by the German Film Critics Association as the best experimental film of 1990. A highlight of camp aesthetic.” (Rundbrief Film) The director describes NARCISSUS AND ECHO as a film in the form of a riddle, a special kind of entertainment film ...
Herzsofort.Setzung II (autogene Manipulationen)
1996 | 7 min | Icons & Media Art
Using Super8, CD-ROM, video, color copy, and computer prints, Brynntrup re- and deconstructs a sequence of images spanning ten years through image processing techniques. "Herzsofort.Setzung is an attempt to sensitize the everyday experience and perception determined by technology in such a way that it becomes aware of itself as such, i.e. as perceiving and giving meaning." (Michael Brynntrup)
AIDE MÉMOIRE - ein schwules Gedächtnisprotokoll
1996 | 16 min | Biography
Photographer Jürgen Baldiga (1959-1993) and filmmaker Michael Brynntrup engage in a private discourse and personal investigation into the handling of images of life and death. "AIDE MÉMOIRE recalls a deceased friend in a radically personal way. The intimate, tender gaze of the filmmaker causes a closeness also of the spectators on AIDS disease, death and transience." (Jury statement - International Short Film Festival Oberhausen)
Loverfilm
1997 | 22 min | Icons & Media Art
"The plots of this film are based on true events. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is not only intentional, but unavoidable. - The viewer also bears responsibility for the images that become public." (Michael Brynntrup) "Noted German experimental filmmaker Michael Brynntrup tantalizes us with his diaristic account of his many lovers. What seems at first to be an extended exercise in ego, gradually becomes a powerful social record of gay life in the years spanning gay liberation and the ...
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020 | 124 min | Biography
With his "Heimatfilmen," his performances and interventions in theater, television, opera and art, director Christoph Schlingensief has helped shape cultural and political discourse in Germany for over two decades. In her masterfully edited and immensely entertaining directorial debut, renowned film editor Bettina Böhler portrays this exceptional artist in his entire spectrum. The film focuses Schliingensief as a typical "family person", whose work is equally devoted to his interpersonal relationship ...
A Space Exodus
2008 | 5 min | Icons & Media Art
A SPACE EXODUS is the first part of Larissa Sansour’s science fiction trilogy along with NATION ESTATE and IN THE FUTURE THEY ATE FROM THE FINEST PORCELAIN. Under the common themes of loss, belonging, heritage, and national identity, the three films each explore different aspects of the political turmoil the Middle East. Using the language of sci-fi and glossy production, Sansour’s trilogy presents a dystopian vision of a Middle East on the brink of the apocalypse. A SPACE EXODUS envisions the ...
Sudden and Unexpected - A Déjà-Revue (Plötzlich und unerwartet )
1993 | 30 min | Icons & Media Art
A short film by one of Germany's most respected experimental film artists, Michael Brynntrup, featuring one of Germany's unique talents, Udo Kier (MANDERLAY) and filmmaker Mara Mattuschka. "Supported by the eccentric appearance of the 'enfant terrible' Udo Kier, director Michael Brynntrup treads a line between avant-garde and trash - tantamount to breaking free of both. Brynntrup has a distinct sense of humor, black humor, of course." (Catalog Gay Film Festival Freiburg, 1994) To ponder death ...
Mass Ornaments
2013 | 79 min | Icons & Media Art
The slet was a hybrid socialist spectacle that displayed striking signs of the country’s imminent collapse, which spectators seemingly didn’t “see”. We take the “blind” spectators as the video’s main protagonists.
The Notes of Anna Azzori / A Mirror that Travels through Time
2020 | 72 min | Documentary
This essay film, based on a prior Berlinale film 'Anna' from 1975, addresses the place of women in a world that was full of discrimination back in the 70s and remains so today. From 1972 to 1975, Italian underground directors Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli, accompanied a pregnant, drug-addicted runaway for their film "Anna". They offered her help and in return made her the main character of their film project, which oscillates between documentation and (re)staging, between empathy, distanced ...