Michael Brynntrup

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.

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 problem dealing with women so he drugs them and photographs their nude bodies for sexual stimulation. He then murders his helpless victims and so goes the life of a deranged serial killer.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

Brynntrup creates his own rococo version of the classical myth of Narcissus and Echo, a story of longing, love, and self-love. Brynntrup comments "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."

Brynntrup creates his own rococo version of the classical myth of Narcissus and Echo, a story of longing, love, and self-love. Brynntrup comments "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."

What hast thou done? - The voice of my brother's blood is crying to you from the ground. - We are shown how God sows the seeds of discord and divides mankind into good and evil.

What hast thou done? - The voice of my brother's blood is crying to you from the ground. - We are shown how God sows the seeds of discord and divides mankind into good and evil.

A Collage of TV- and moviefootage from september 1981

An experimental short film about birth and death.

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

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

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

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 actually pierce delicate parts of his body.

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

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

My day in the yearly film.

"Death mask: facial imprint of the deceased in soft plaster or wax."

For better or for worse... Provisions, while things are still working. (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.

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

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.

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."

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...

Where I come from, people stay at home. Except when they go on holiday or off to war.

As said. - A film like its title.

Applause: the echo of a platitude. (Ambrose Bierce)

Diary film: Every person has their own taboos.

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.

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)

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. - And a self-portrait in broadcast and artistic media.

Women piss too - only less.

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.

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

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

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.

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