GDR Experimental: REALFilm
1986 | 47 min | Icons & Media Art
REALFilm is Lutz Dammbck's examination of film and filmmaking, a film in real time, a collage in space involving the audience.
Lutz Friedel
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GDR Experimental: Heracles
1984 | 10 min | Icons & Media Art
Together with Lutz Dammbeck, dancer Fine Kwiatkowski explores myths, political systems and their impact on society.
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GDR Experimental: Heracles
1984 | 10 min | Icons & Media Art
Lutz Dammbeck experiments with the boundaries between film, performance and media art. In the early 1980s, he works with dancer Fine Kwiatkowski to develop elements for his planned media collages – a central element of his “Herakles Concept”. This multi-layered project explores myths and political systems and their impact on society. In 1984, Dammbeck moved into an independent art space on Sredzkistraße in East Berlin, which was run by art historian Eugen Blume and artists such as Hans Scheib and ...
GDR Experimental: Metamorphosis 1
1978 | 6 min | Icons & Media Art
In 1976, Lutz Dammbeck and five Leipzig artists conceived the interdisciplinary exhibition “Tangente I”, which was intended to serve as a platform for experimental art forms in the GDR. The focus was on collaborative works combining various media such as painting, film and installation. However, before the exhibition could be realized, it was banned by the authorities in 1977 – a typical fate for avant-garde art in the GDR that operated outside the state-regulated framework. Dammbeck did not let ...
The painter of the strange country …
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 ...
The Netz: SEEK II
2009 | 29 min | Icons & Media Art
While doing research for his film THE NET, Lutz Dammbeck came across the groundbreaking exhibition “Software – Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art”, which took place at the Jewish Museum in New York in 1970. Curated by Jack Burnham, this exhibition presented the symbiosis of conceptual and media art with what were then new technologies developed for the American military. One of the central exhibits was the installation Seek by the Architecture Machine Group of the Massachusetts Institute ...
GDR Experimental: First Leipzig Autumn Salon
2006 | 22 min | Icons & Media Art
In 1984, the artists Lutz Dammbeck, Günter Firit, Hans Hendrik Grimmling, Frieder Heinze, Günter Huniat and Olaf Wegewitz occupied a trade fair building in the center of Leipzig to stage one of the first independent and public exhibitions in the GDR – the 1st LEIPZIGER HERBSTSALON. The event was an act of resistance against the GDR's system of state control and a creative form of self-assertion. The artists defied the restrictive guidelines of cultural policy and created an autonomous space for avant-garde, ...
GDR Experimental: Homage to La Sarraz
1981 | 12 min | Icons & Media Art
In September 1929, a group of visionary filmmakers gathered at La Sarraz Castle in Switzerland to discuss alternatives to commercial cinema. The participants, including Sergei Eisenstein, Hans Richter, Walter Ruttmann and Luis Buñuel, want to explore new ways of independent filmmaking and challenge the bourgeois narrative film. Lutz Dammbeck takes up this historic meeting and pays artistic tribute to it with DDR-EXPERIMENTAL: HOMMAGE À LA SARRAZ. The film combines documentary elements with experimental ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Cave of Hercules
1990 | 44 min | Icons & Media Art
For centuries, the mythical figure of Heracles has been a symbol of immense strength, divine mission and the challenges of human existence. His twelve heroic deeds are world-famous – including the slaying of the Nemean Lion, the slaying of the Lernaean Hydra and the cleansing of the Augean stables. But beyond the heroic saga, his image remains fragmentary, changeable and elusive. HERAKLES CAVE sets out on a quest to find the ancient hero and his legacy in the modern world. Director Lutz Dammbeck ...
Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
2013 | 79 min | Biography
This is the story of a film maniac who was crushed between the opposing fronts of German cinema and his own lack of compromise. Otto Sander recalls his first screen appearance in "Ludwig." Eva Mattes reviews one of her most memorable roles and recounts the making of "Supermarkt." Hark Bohm commemorates his brother Marquard, who rose to stardom with DEADLOCK. And horror film icon David Hess, who raged alongside Hopper in "White Star," interprets Klick's drama from an American perspective: "He was ...