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Blue Box Blues (Staging a Photo Shoot)

Blue Box Blues (Staging a Photo Shoot)

By Michael Brynntrup

2004 | 8 min | Icons & Media Art

"An outstanding piece by Michael Brynntrup that captures the violence and tenderness, alongside the dominance and submission, that is found in a single, intimate embrace." (tip Berlin) Technically precise and with his characteristic visual proficiency Michael Brynntrup leads us in BLUE BOX BLUES through one of his perception experiments. He contrasts the spontaneous impression made by a sensual and vibrant photograph showing a lesbian couple in a tender embrace, with a lengthy, meticulous staging ...

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Loverfilm

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 ...

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

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.

Herzsofort.Setzung II (autogene Manipulationen)

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)

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

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 ...

AIDE MÉMOIRE - ein schwules Gedächtnisprotokoll

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)

Narcissus and Echo

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 ...

A Space Exodus

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 ...

Zownir: Radical Man

Zownir: Radical Man

2006 | 60 min | Biography

Stanley Kubrick's screenwriter and satirical novelist Terry Southern called Miron Zownir the poet of radical photography. Born in Karlsruhe in 1953, Zownir moved to Berlin in 1976 and then to the U.S. in 1981. There he spent 15 years in New York, Los Angeles & Pittsburgh. Zownir is one of the greatest existentialist photographers of our time. His images are icons of lust, pain, hunger, madness, starvation & death.

Mass Ornaments

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.

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

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. At the beginning of the film a dramatic story is suggested, which in the course of the film develops into a reflection on storytelling. The making of films and images itself comes into view. The handling of images is thematized, visualized and documented on several media narrative levels: from the making of the film (shooting) to the TV coverage of ...