Michael Brynntrup Movies

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

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...

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

A short film by the German experimental filmmaker Michael Brynntrup from 1993. The film describes a surrealistic and absurd cycle of activities in a...

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)

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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

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,...

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

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

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

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

This film is based upon true occurrences. Any resemblance to individuals, dead or alive, is not only intentional, but unavoidable. - Excerpts from my...

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

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