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2006 | 115 min | Documentary
Olivier Assayas was given the honour of playing two stages at the Art Rock Festival in St. Brieuc with concerts, lectures and experimental cinema.


2006 | 115 min | Documentary
Olivier Assayas was given the honour of playing two stages at the Art Rock Festival in St. Brieuc with concerts, lectures and experimental cinema.

2011 | 111 min | Documentary
Over a period of more than 15 years, Swiss director Thomas Imbach filmed with a 35mm camera from the window of his Zurich studio. Accompanied by authentic answering machine messages from 1988 to 2003, a cinematic portrait of the invisible man behind the camera emerges. The combination of image and sound forms a fictional autobiography that addresses personal experiences such as birth, death, separation, and new beginnings, while at the same time painting a universal landscape of the soul. The film ...

1998 | 106 min | Documentary
In the 1990s, the art world is shaken by a series of mysterious attacks. At first, paintings in renowned galleries were targeted, and later, bombs were set off by the pro-German movement in Austria. In 1994, the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts finally became a crime scene: unknown perpetrators painted over several works by the famous Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer with black paint – a targeted attack on the “Über-Maler” himself? In MASTER GAME, Lutz Dammbeck links these events with the controversial ...

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 ...

1986 | 47 min | Icons & Media Art
REALFIm is Lutz Dammbeck's radical reflection on film and filmmaking – an experiment that takes place in real time and with the direct involvement of the audience. In a performative experimental set-up, Dammbeck deconstructs the classic elements of the medium in order to “purify” them of ideological and commercial influences. Light, sound and movement are not only understood as technical components, but as fundamental building blocks of an alternative film language. The performance on May 14, 1985 ...

2013 | 13 min | Icons & Media Art
Yalda Afsahs 3-film-series superimposes fleeting insights into the inner workings of the building spaces of the private and the public, of intimacy and spectacle. In KABATAS, the viewer’s gaze is directed by the movement of the wind occasionally lifting a plastic veil of an Istanbul building. Shot in San Francisco, FILLMORE is a continuation of Yalda Afsah’s close observations of urban spaces. ATLANTEN, shot in Berlin, shows two parts of a viaduct breaching out of a corner building otherwise ...

2002 | 90 min | Documentary
A deportation container for asylum seekers, interactively influenced by the audience, racist speeches by the former FPÖ success figure Jörg Haider blasting out of speakers. What sounds like a mixture of the realty TV show "Big Brother" and a dark vision of fear was an art project by Christoph Schlingensief, which took place in the middle of Vienna in the early 2000s. On "www.auslaenderraus.at" the audience could decide daily which inhabitant was deported. Thousands of passers-by got angry on site ...

1988 | 42 min | Icons & Media Art
Three artists who moved from East Germany to West Berlin in the mid-1980s are the focus of this documentary. Cornelia Schleime, Hans-Hendrik Grimmling and Hans Scheib were part of the alternative art scene in East Germany and resisted state dictates. But what did the change to a new social system mean for their artistic identity? How did their strategies and perspectives change in the West, where market mechanisms and a different culture of self-staging suddenly prevailed? In THE PAINTER CAME FROM ...

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 ...

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)

2016 | 27 min | Documentary
In under three minutes, a skywriter can write a message of skyscraper-sized letters in the air. But the mile-long lettering vanishes after only a few minutes. This documentary takes a look behind the scenes of this flying cloud factory for the first time and takes us into the skies - between soaring and despair. Because: even for the most experienced pilots, skywriting is a daily battle against weather, time and nerves. "This awesome documentary by Munich-based director an producer Nils Otte takes ...