… sie bewegt uns alle
Kurt Stordel
An animation in praise of the Deutsche Mark as the solid currency to be trusted.
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Film Archive
An animation in praise of the Deutsche Mark as the solid currency to be trusted.
Olaf Möller
Olaf Möller
Adam 2
Jan Lenica
The eternal Adam on a journey by bicycle and time machine through a world of lemurs and phantasms. Surrealist cartoon animation somewhere between Monty Python and Kafka.
Jan Lenica’s cartoon and collage animation is a variation on the outsider theme of his early works: an “old Adam with new problems” travels by bike and time machine through a world of lemurs and phantasms in a futile quest for paradise. Lenica called this Kafkaesque, pessimistic parable, frequently obscured by the ciphers of depth psychology, “autobiographical” (Der Spiegel 1975).
Aus dem Alltag in der DDR: Dritter Versuch einer Rekonstruktion
Carlheinz Caspari
Re-enactments (complete with ideological background) of current events in the GDR for FRG television.
Aus dem Alltag in der DDR: Dritter Versuch einer Rekonstruktion
Re-enactments (complete with ideological background) of current events in the GDR for FRG television: prime time in the Cold War.
Olaf Möller
Olaf Möller
Aus eigener Kraft
Franz Schroedter
Photo: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft | About the reconstruction of Wolfsburg and the Volkswagen factory.
Photo: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft | About the reconstruction of Wolfsburg and the Volkswagen factory.
Olaf Möller
Olaf Möller
Balance
Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein
Five lean figures are standing on a concrete platform hovering somewhere in some universe. Their co-existence literally becomes a balancing act.
Balance
Animated Film
FRG
1989
8 minutes
subtitles:
_without dialogue / subtitles
Credits
Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein
Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein
Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein
Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein
Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein
Five lean figures are standing on a concrete platform hovering somewhere in some universe. Each of their movements disturbs the balance and puts the whole system at risk. Their co-existence becomes a balancing act … The German filmmakers Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1990 for this puppet animation.
Duscha Kistler
Duscha Kistler
Besonders Wertvoll
Hellmuth Costard
The scandal of Oberhausen in 1968: a penis, a conservative MP, a film funding act, a fart.
Besonders Wertvoll
Credits
Hellmuth Costard
The scandal of Oberhausen in 1968: a penis, a conservative MP, a film funding act, a fart. Aren’t you ashamed of yourself?
Tobias Hering
Tobias Hering
Born Out of Death
Monica Maurer
The West-German director Monica Maurer made a number of important films for the PLO. The Israeli airstrikes against Beirut on 17 July 1981 killed 350 people, including a pregnant woman whose baby could be rescued ...
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PLO
Monica Maurer
Mohamed Awad, Samir Nimer
Mauro Contini
Monica Maurer
The West-German director Monica Maurer made a number of important films for the PLO. The Israeli airstrikes against Beirut on 17 July 1981 killed 350 people, including a pregnant woman whose baby could be rescued from her torn-up womb. Maurer shows the people’s suffering and pain, their victimhood. She addresses the systemic causes of violence, referring back to the history of their country and formulating arguments for the necessity of a fight for liberation.
Irit Neidhardt
Irit Neidhardt
Cultural Nationalism
Skip Norman
Black Power on a snowy meadow in West Berlin: a black child and a speech by Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party.
Black Power on a snowy meadow in West Berlin: a black child and a speech by Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party.
Ralph Eue
Ralph Eue
Der Große Schmuggel
Gertraud Reiner, Walter Reiner
Over the centuries, the house of “Europe” had many builders, first and foremost among them the suspicion and self-interest of the nations. Soon there were guards and smugglers everywhere. “Suddenly someone had an idea”... and slowly the walls begin to crumble and the windows to the neighbours open.
Der Große Schmuggel
Over the centuries, the house of “Europe” had many builders, first and foremost among them the suspicion and self-interest of the nations. Soon there were guards and smugglers everywhere. “Suddenly someone had an idea”... and slowly the walls begin to crumble and the windows to the neighbours open.
Der heiße Frieden
Ferdinand Khittl
A modernistic essay about the free market economy. New (West-)German Cinema puts itself in the service of its state and its ideology.
A modernistic essay about the free market economy. New (West-)German Cinema puts itself in the service of its state and its ideology.
Olaf Möller
Olaf Möller
Der Maler kam aus fremdem Land …
Lutz Dammbeck
A portrait of the artists Cornelia Schleime, Hans-Hendrik Grimmling and Hans Scheib who left the GDR for West Berlin between 1984 and 1985.
Der Maler kam aus fremdem Land …
“From a strange land the painter came, so here he is still quite unknown. From a strange world the painter came, so here he is quite on his own.” A portrait of the artists Cornelia Schleime, Hans-Hendrik Grimmling and Hans Scheib who left the GDR for West Berlin between 1984 and 1985. What became of their former subversive strategies and positions in “the West”? Were they still able to find common ground? Where was the force field feeding their art located now? This was the first film Dammbeck made in the FRG, and he had to shoot it twice because the original negative got lost on its way to the lab. When it turned up again, it was unusable. A farewell greeting from the old homeland?
Sven Safarow
Sven Safarow
Der Reifenschneider und seine Frau
Klaus Wildenhahn, Roland Hehn, Horst Schwaab
A portrait of two outsiders and their life at the margins: the margin of society in West Berlin and the margin of a West Berlin student rally.
Der Reifenschneider und seine Frau
A portrait of two outsiders and their life at the margins: the margin of society in West Berlin and the margin of a West Berlin student rally.
Ralph Eue
Ralph Eue
Der Wiederaufbau der deutschen Wirtschaft 1945–1948
Rudolf Werner Kipp
How the foundations of the economic miracle were cast – a pleasantly dry chronicle of the first three post-war years.
Der Wiederaufbau der deutschen Wirtschaft 1945–1948
How the foundations of the economic miracle were cast – a pleasantly dry chronicle of the first three post-war years.
Olaf Möller
Olaf Möller
Der Wirtschaftswunderbaum
anonymous
Why everything is getting better and better with Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard – an animated campaign commercial for the CDU.
Credits
anonymous
Why everything is getting better and better with Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard – an animated campaign commercial for the CDU.
Olaf Möller
Olaf Möller
Des Lebens Wunderhorn
Marion Zemann
The life of a young Swabian bakery employee.
The life of a young Swabian bakery employee. A vague longing for something else lurks between the phrases and images of her everyday life.
Ralph Eue
Ralph Eue
Dialog oder Ariadnes Klage
Boris von Borresholm
The difficult relationship between a man and a woman could end in their death. The potential consequences are enumerated and the relationship is given a second chance. An occasionally abstract narrative of the trials and tribulations of love.
Dialog oder Ariadnes Klage
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Boris von Borresholm
Luciano Berio
Sylvia Kekulé
Elisabeth Imholte, Boris von Borresholm
Manfredo Manfredi
The difficult relationship between a man and a woman could end in their death. The potential consequences are enumerated and the relationship is given a second chance. An occasionally abstract narrative of the trials and tribulations of love.