Michael Brynntrup Movies

As said. (Super8)

Applause: the echo of a platitude. (Ambrose Bierce)

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

(Visuals for a live performance of the band Maria Kron aka Maria Lux)

WALK / DON'T WALK / WALK. The rhythm of the nineties. A tribute to the vital New York drag scene and the "electronic" 90's that is also a remembrance...

"Death mask: facial imprint of the deceased in soft plaster or wax."

An educational training film.

The joint high mess of 80s German underground: An exercise in exquisite corps (and in some cases probably also automatic writing) for which artists...

Cinema not as the uterus for dreaming but as a test of patience.

The last remains of the deathstrip.

Michael Brynntrup’s first 8mm feature: an autobiographical travel diary made in Italy (1981) in which the young filmmaker films his own journey...

"Gravediggers: species of beetles, black, live off cadavers of small animals, which they roll into balls."

Between an overgrown West Berlin graveyard and a desolate stretch of land under communist rule, there is a supposedly dead no-man's land. - Around...

Rests and tests from the inquiry into prototypes. Formal proofs through pregnant experiments on one's own body.

"Deathbirds: birds, e.g. raven, dove as animals of the soul (see soul)"

"blind spot: term for a currently not reachable or visible space."

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. ...

Homosexuality is inherited, and comes from the stress caused by metabolic disturbances in the mother's body. (Hormone Scientist Prof. Günther...

The original is in motion. The identity is being denied. On the very first take I wanted to pose naked in front of the camera. But I guess I didn't...

I am now going to experience a possible birth, - the procedure of which can obviously vary.