Peter Weiss

"The Century of the Theater" - From the "birth of the director" to the "heroes of modernity" - an overview of the world of theater - illuminates the interaction with the history of the past hundred years is also shown.

A film about the youth prison in Uppsala, which focuses on one intern's alienation and anxiety.

A young man comes to Stockholm, Sweden and experiences several bizarre and surrealistic situations.

A documentary film about the 99 year old artist Anna Casparsson. She is interviewed by Peter Weiss in her home in Saltsjöbaden. “I shot 'Anna Casparsson' together with Staffan Lamm. I had wanted to complete the film, but somehow I did not get around to it and then she died shortly afterwards.” -Peter Weiss

A short pamphlet based on a text by Peter Weiss and on the contrapuntal use of the relation between image and sound. The commercial activities and fantasies linked to tourism in Sweden are contradicted by the geopolitics of capitalist imperialism, in particular with the war in Vietnam.

In this preliminary study for Study IV “Liberation” a man hauls his alter ego through various spaces. The scene is reminiscent of Luis Buñuel’s “An Andalusian Dog”, where the man drags along a piano, two priests, and two dead donkeys. Weiss was not happy with this first, more personal version. He gave up the attempt to re-edit it.

"The Century of the Theater" - From the "birth of the director" to the "heroes of modernity" - an overview of the world of theater - illuminates the interaction with the history of the past hundred years is also shown.

A film about the youth prison in Uppsala, which focuses on one intern's alienation and anxiety.

A film about the youth prison in Uppsala, which focuses on one intern's alienation and anxiety.

A young man comes to Stockholm, Sweden and experiences several bizarre and surrealistic situations.

A documentary film about the 99 year old artist Anna Casparsson. She is interviewed by Peter Weiss in her home in Saltsjöbaden. “I shot 'Anna Casparsson' together with Staffan Lamm. I had wanted to complete the film, but somehow I did not get around to it and then she died shortly afterwards.” -Peter Weiss

A short pamphlet based on a text by Peter Weiss and on the contrapuntal use of the relation between image and sound. The commercial activities and fantasies linked to tourism in Sweden are contradicted by the geopolitics of capitalist imperialism, in particular with the war in Vietnam.

In this preliminary study for Study IV “Liberation” a man hauls his alter ego through various spaces. The scene is reminiscent of Luis Buñuel’s “An Andalusian Dog”, where the man drags along a piano, two priests, and two dead donkeys. Weiss was not happy with this first, more personal version. He gave up the attempt to re-edit it.

In this preliminary study for Study IV “Liberation” a man hauls his alter ego through various spaces. The scene is reminiscent of Luis Buñuel’s “An Andalusian Dog”, where the man drags along a piano, two priests, and two dead donkeys. Weiss was not happy with this first, more personal version. He gave up the attempt to re-edit it.

About everyday life and the recurrent dangers in the big city.

About everyday life and the recurrent dangers in the big city.

Surrealistic images of Faust-Mephisto in his fantastic laboratory.

Twelve staged scenes that were modelled after a set of drawings. Accompanied by metallic sounds, various body parts, limbs and objects form surrealistic collages against the background of a black space. Peter Weiss intended to create associative images that can not be deciphered completely. Beyond any logical interpretation, he wanted to show pure inner feelings.

Twelve staged scenes that were modelled after a set of drawings. Accompanied by metallic sounds, various body parts, limbs and objects form surrealistic collages against the background of a black space. Peter Weiss intended to create associative images that can not be deciphered completely. Beyond any logical interpretation, he wanted to show pure inner feelings.

The Investigation (1965) is TV version of a play by German playwright Peter Weiss that depicts the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963–1965.

A heavy drug addict in his junkie quarter at Österlånggatan, Stockholm.

The immense population increase in Copenhagen mid of the 20th century requested new living space further from the city centre. The old town quarters of the danish capital offered neither enough space nor did they provide a life close to nature which was required especially by families with many children. Based on the so called „finger plan” from 1947 Copenhagen was enlarged along five radial traffic axes. Using the example of the estates Carlsrø in Rodøvre and Milestedet in Brøndbyøster "Bag de ens facader" documents life in a modern suburb.

The immense population increase in Copenhagen mid of the 20th century requested new living space further from the city centre. The old town quarters of the danish capital offered neither enough space nor did they provide a life close to nature which was required especially by families with many children. Based on the so called „finger plan” from 1947 Copenhagen was enlarged along five radial traffic axes. Using the example of the estates Carlsrø in Rodøvre and Milestedet in Brøndbyøster "Bag de ens facader" documents life in a modern suburb.

In a single room, Peter Weiss has captured the environment of two drug addicts, without ever showing their faces in the film.

A symbolic reconstruction of the Auschwitz process in Frankfurt in 1963-1965. Litigation against those responsible for the mass extermination in German prison camps during the Second World War.

Deals with young people dealing and using drugs of all kind.

Deals with young people dealing and using drugs of all kind.

A surrealistic and symbolic depiction of the liberation of the self in a series of associative scenes. The main character moves between different rooms, rooms of significance for him, dragging something that constantly changes form but eventually turns out to be himself. It is an old and consumed I that disappears from him.

A surrealistic and symbolic depiction of the liberation of the self in a series of associative scenes. The main character moves between different rooms, rooms of significance for him, dragging something that constantly changes form but eventually turns out to be himself. It is an old and consumed I that disappears from him.

The day begins for an avant-garde artist. We see him waking up amid empty bottles, easels, and silk stockings.

The day begins for an avant-garde artist. We see him waking up amid empty bottles, easels, and silk stockings.

Experimental survey of down-and-outs in the city. - BFI

Uncompleted portrait of an artist. Fragmentary images from Öyvind Fahlström's studio, with paintings, collages and Fahlström's friendship gathered around a table.

Sequences of photographic abstractions have been balanced against more realistic sections. A surrealistically charged encounter between two lovers, a young woman and a man.

Sequences of photographic abstractions have been balanced against more realistic sections. A surrealistically charged encounter between two lovers, a young woman and a man.