Movies: Michael Brynntrup

Fruits and classical music and punks....

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

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 have the guts. - By the way, I took that shot by self-timer....

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....

Life is a deadly illness, which is carried over by sexual contacts. (Graffitti on a public toilet, 1990) - A historically-current anti-aids clip....

Totenkopf (The Skull), highest elevation of the 'Kaiserstuhl' (557m). - Kaiserstuhl, upper Rhineland mountains with terminal moraine (30m high). - Moraine, a sediment also containing artifacts and skeletal remains....

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....

As said. - A film like its title....

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 ECG of metempsychosis. Electrographics of the 4th Dimension. (The family chronicle of a bachelor, self portrait as autobiography)....

As said. - bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravissimo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo......

At first I thought... Today I know that it was right. We are here, whenever you need us. (first TV commercial for a german undertaker)...

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

In his short film VERONIKA (VERA IKON) experimental filmmaker Michael Brynntrup takes the biblical prohibition of images literally...

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 noon, the main character arrives at this inevitable place....

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

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...

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

The city, the traffic jam, and the trashcan, - a post-painterly music clip....

Intermezzo: 1. A brief entr'acte. 2a. A short movement separating the major sections of a symphonic work. 2b. An independent instrumental composition having the character of such a movement. (Italian)...