Movies: Michael Brynntrup

Lothar Schramm is a simple man with complex problems, yet he seems like such a nice guy. He works as a taxi driver and lives by himself where he is happy to answer his door to strangers and kill them outright. As with many shy loner types he has a pr...

Lesbian filmmakers from Berlin were asked to make a short film about their idea of male gay love and sexuality and, vice versa, gay men were given the task of making a short film about lesbian sexuality and eroticism....

Where I come from, people stay at home. Except when they go on holiday or off to war....

A short film by the German experimental filmmaker Michael Brynntrup from 1993. The film describes a surrealistic and absurd cycle of activities in a hermetically sealed cemetery from which the actors cannot break out....

The joint high mess of 80s German underground: An exercise in exquisite corps (and in some cases probably also automatic writing) for which artists from both nations shot episodes from the Good Book - not necessarily following the text too closely....

A film in the form of a riddle is a special kind of entertainment film whereby the film's content must be deduced from the film's formal structure....

A catalogue of psychodramatic rituals, a series of theme and variations Bach might have named The Art of the Skull. Photographed entirely in super-8, each figures a single performer, a skull, and a specific arena of interaction....

Safe sex in the 70ies. Bigger than life in 35mm. All you can eat in 5 minutes....

Takes a close look at the surface of the human body. Photographed over the course of eight years, the film shows six men and one pregnant woman who… all exhibit their tattoos, piercings and scars. With spiritual concentration, a young man begins to a...

Homosexuality is inherited, and comes from the stress caused by metabolic disturbances in the mother's body. (Hormone Scientist Prof. Günther Dörner, 1990) Homosexuality is curable. Thanks a lot....

Explores the mobile meanings of language in film with the help of sophisticated telecommunications; an aural/oral offering....

Captures the violence and tenderness, alongside the dominance and submission, that is found in a single, intimate embrace....

"Do you really think I give you a chance at me?" - Practice Film for ZDF....

Photographer Jürgen Baldiga (1959-1993) and filmmaker Michael Brynntrup, - privat discourses and personal investigations of how to deal with images of life and death....

The ECG of metempsychosis (from the genes to the zodiac). Electrographics of the 4th Dimension....

A film in the form of a riddle is a special kind of entertainment film whereby the film's content must be deduced from the film's formal structure. The artist is Orpheus, of all the first. - Following him, the same they do, - Overcoming death's ste...

Immanuel Kant Hospital in Neukölln, Berlin. Midnight. A patient is being admitted. TV journalists are on the spot. The beginning of a story that tells itself....

It's not about how a drag queen moves, it's what she sets in motion....

For better or for worse... Provisions, while things are still working. (first TV commercial for a german undertaker)...

Rhythm in the age of its digital producability - an oscilloscope loosely based on Eadweard Muybridge....