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....

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 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....

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....

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...

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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....

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 of the Christopher Street queer revolt 30 years ago....

About which one cannot speak, one must make films. (loosely based on Ludwig Wittgenstein)...

This film is based upon true occurrences. Any resemblance to individuals, dead or alive, is not only intentional, but unavoidable. - Excerpts from my Diary and the relevant books of German law....