Gerd Conradt

Directing

Gerd Conradt

Born

1941-05-14 (85)

Known for

Directing

Credits

27 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 3 titles

Behind the camera

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In the face of Berlin's current banking crisis, brought about by the Bankgesellschaft Berlin, a group of demonstrators, largely academics, sought to draw attention to the seriousness of this economic scandal.

Save Berlin!

2003

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In the face of Berlin's current banking crisis, brought about by the Bankgesellschaft Berlin, a group of demonstrators, largely academics, sought to draw attention to the seriousness of this economic scandal.

Save Berlin!

2003

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8.0

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Der Videopionier

1984

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8.0

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Der Videopionier

1984

Color Test: The Red Flag poster
8.0

Gerd Conradt films men carrying a red flag in a relay race through Berlin, to hoist it on the balcony of the current Mayor’s seat. A cinematic experiment based on Eadweard Muybridge, Andy Warhol and New American Cinema. A study in men, movements and a symbol. This is the 7th part of this series of film exercises. The other 6 parts were staged by Harun Farocki (Part 1), Carlos Bustamante (Part 2), Helke Sander (Part 3), Holger Meins (Part 4), Wolfgang Petersen (Part 5), Philip Werner Sauber (Part 6).

Color Test: The Red Flag

1968

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Film announcing the November 4, 1968 demonstration and urging demonstrators to be prepared to fight.

Machen wir den Tegeler Weg zur Kochstrasse

1968

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5.2

Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Conradt takes an in-depth look at the helmsman of the Baader-Meinhof gang. Who was Holger Meins? What led him into the underground? What circumstances resulted in his death, a death which made him the declared symbol of the radical opposition in Germany? What remains of his legacy?

Starbuck Holger Meins

2002

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5.2

Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Conradt takes an in-depth look at the helmsman of the Baader-Meinhof gang. Who was Holger Meins? What led him into the underground? What circumstances resulted in his death, a death which made him the declared symbol of the radical opposition in Germany? What remains of his legacy?

Starbuck Holger Meins

2002

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10.0

Film essay on Holger Meins, Gerd Conradt's former colleague who died on hunger strike in 1975.

Über Holger Meins – Ein Versuch, unsere Sicht heute

1982

24 Hours Berlin poster
9.0

24-hour television documentary about Berlin and its inhabitants, reporting in real time on the everyday lives of more than 50 protagonists from a wide range of professions, social classes, religions and ethnicities.

24 Hours Berlin

2009

Frederic Rzewski eats spaghetti at Carlone Via della Luce 55 poster
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The composer Frederic Rzewski ordered a film from Gerd Conradt for his piece “Selfportrait”. The film was supposed to be shown while he was playing his piece of music, he didn't want to be seen. The film shows Frederic Rzewski sitting down at the table in the Trattoria Carlone in the Trastevere district of Rome from a bird's eye view. He orders wine, salad and a portion of spaghetti. We watch as he eats, pays, gets up and walks out of the picture. All in one setting.

Frederic Rzewski eats spaghetti at Carlone Via della Luce 55

1967

Video Vertov poster
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In VIDEO VERTOV, director Gerd Conradt tells his grandson stories from more than forty years of his eventful life - based on film and video documents. The film tells the life story of the video pioneer: love and revolution, red flag and meditation - expeditions to distant countries. For his grandson, Gerd Conradt spreads his film and video treasures on the big screen and leaves behind an "electronic" testament to his 50-year career as a film artist. The first love. Economic Miracle Berlin. Marriage and birth of daughter in Rome. Student at the dffb in Berlin. A life between adaptation and provocation. A life in search of knowledge, always interested in the extreme.

Video Vertov

2013

Video Vertov poster
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In VIDEO VERTOV, director Gerd Conradt tells his grandson stories from more than forty years of his eventful life - based on film and video documents. The film tells the life story of the video pioneer: love and revolution, red flag and meditation - expeditions to distant countries. For his grandson, Gerd Conradt spreads his film and video treasures on the big screen and leaves behind an "electronic" testament to his 50-year career as a film artist. The first love. Economic Miracle Berlin. Marriage and birth of daughter in Rome. Student at the dffb in Berlin. A life between adaptation and provocation. A life in search of knowledge, always interested in the extreme.

Video Vertov

2013

in-sight poster
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Gerd Conradt's experimental documentary "Ein-Blick" from 1987 captures the rhythms of daily life along Elsenstraße's border in a time-lapse. Over the course of a day, a camera focuses on a house and watchtower within the border zone, snapping one image per second for twelve hours. What unfolds is a surreal ballet of reality, transforming into a slapstick grotesque, all set to the backdrop of evocative piano melodies.

in-sight

1987

Turn Your Eyes To The Present poster
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Gerd Conradt sits with Frederic Rzewski to have a chat on music. This conversation takes place in Montiano, Italy on August 14th, 1999.

Turn Your Eyes To The Present

2015

Monte Klamotte - Eine Expedition zum Berliner Schuldenberg poster
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The capital Berlin is heavily in debt. Annually it takes 16 billion euros, but gives out 20 billion. The minus is covered by loans, which in turn attract interest.

Monte Klamotte - Eine Expedition zum Berliner Schuldenberg

2005

Monte Klamotte - Eine Expedition zum Berliner Schuldenberg poster
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The capital Berlin is heavily in debt. Annually it takes 16 billion euros, but gives out 20 billion. The minus is covered by loans, which in turn attract interest.

Monte Klamotte - Eine Expedition zum Berliner Schuldenberg

2005

Santa Lucia poster
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This film has no story - one could be born at any moment. His characters are the composition of the composition that, in the time they live in, is the composition of the time in which they live. The situations are exemplary, they come from the reality of dreams, a movement takes on several dimensions, gives the impression of simultaneity, the passage of time is not perceived.

Santa Lucia

1967

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Face_It! - Das Gesicht im Zeitalter des Digitalismus

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Die wilden Tiere poster
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Documents a one-week meeting of radical leftist activists known as "Knastkamp" (Prison battle), which took place in July 1969 in Ebrach, Bamberg.

Die wilden Tiere

1969