Michael Brynntrup

Actor

Director

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Michael Brynntrup is a German experimental filmmaker and visual artist known for his avant-garde and highly personal work. He has directed and produced numerous short films and videos since the 1980s, exploring themes such as sexuality, identity, and queer culture. Some of his notable works include "Blue Movie," "Fragen an meinen Vater," and "Lumière." Brynntrup has gained recognition for his contributions to the experimental film genre, receiving awards at various film festivals and screenings. His films often challenge traditional narrative structures and push the boundaries of cinematic storytelling. In addition to his filmmaking career, Brynntrup is also a respected visual artist and has exhibited his works in galleries and museums internationally.

Films on Sooner

  • Herzsofort.Setzung II (autogene Manipulationen)

    1996

    7 mins

    Icons & Media Art, Shorts

    Michael Brynntrup investigates artwork in the age of artificial reproducibility by means of transmedial self-portraits.

  • AIDE MÉMOIRE - ein schwules Gedächtnisprotokoll

    1996

    16 mins

    Biography, Queer

    Two years before his death, the HIV-positive Baldiga reviews his life, in selected episodes.

  • E.K.G. Expositus (the public and the artistic media)

    2004

    101 mins

    Biography, Icons & Media Art

    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.

  • Loverfilm

    1997

    22 mins

    Icons & Media Art, Queer

    Berlin filmmaker Michael Brynntrup exposes his own sex life in a radical, relentless yet humorous invasion of privacy.

  • Jesus - The Film

    1986

    127 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    In a Dada-inspired retelling of the New Testament on Super8, 22 filmmakers and Michael Brynntrup explore faith and art in 35 episodes.

  • Unpublished! - A Bonus Track

    2006

    3 mins

    Icons & Media Art

  • Blue Box Blues (Staging a Photo Shoot)

    2004

    8 mins

    Icons & Media Art

  • The Ovo (Ovo - the Video)

    2005

    17 mins

    Icons & Media Art

  • Veronika (vera ikon)

    1986

    11 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    In his short film VERONIKA (VERA IKON) experimental filmmaker Michael Brynntrup takes the biblical prohibition of images literally.

  • The Statics - Engineering Memory Bridges (Die Statik der Eselsbrücken)

    1990

    20 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    "A superb biography - a pseudo-scientific collection of curiosities with puns turning artistic somersaults."

  • Ipanema lip-synch

    2003

    3 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    IPANEMA LIP SYNC is a queer karaoke video short from Berlin filmmaking icon Michael Brynntrup.

  • Sudden and Unexpected - A Déjà-Revue (Plötzlich und unerwartet )

    1993

    30 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    Udo Kier walks a black-humored, fine line between avant-garde and trash, which is tantamount to an act of unleashing.

  • Face It! (Cast Your Self™)

    2007

    4 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    A short film by Berlin-based film icon Michael Brynntrup full of photographs collected from personal profiles in gay chat rooms on the internet.

  • E.C.G.1.0.1 (a self-portrait in broadcast and artistic media)

    2004

    24 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    Michael Brynntrup, in his unmistakable style, was already anticipating developments in the media in the early 2000s.

  • Achtung - Respect (concentration chair)

    2002

    13 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    A look back at body modifications in the early 2000s.

  • Love, Jealousy and Revenge (Liebe, Eifersucht und Rache)

    1991

    7 mins

    Icons & Media Art

  • Gender Agenda

    1999

    76 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    GENDER AGENDA is a compilation of eight queer short films by Berlin experimental filmmaking icon Michael Brynntrup.

  • Homo Erectus

    1989

    76 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    An amusing journey through the Berlin Drag-Queen scene of the 80s in five short films by Michael Brynntrup.

  • All You Can Eat

    1993

    5 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    This short film "takes the ‘cum-shot’ to new heights with a montage of some of the wildest, orgasmic, facial expressions." (Boys On Film #6)

  • NY 'NY 'n why not

    1999

    4 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    WALK / DON'T WALK / WALK. The rhythm of the nineties. A musical stroll along Christopher Street.

  • Narcissus and Echo

    1989

    14 mins

    Icons & Media Art