Hellmuth Costard

The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.

A Super-8 film in color with sound on magnetic stripe.

A documentary about the 'critical mass', the Film Coop, a group of young filmmakers in Hamburg during the 1960s - a small group far from the Mainstream or the New German Cinema.

The drawings on which the series is based were created in 1969 and served as a template for a slide series in 1970. During its screening, this is interrupted by the film "Percy McPhee Agent of Horror (6th + 7th episode)".

A group of indispensable works in the Ruhr area on the development of a solar power plant. At first she only finds attention through a former KGB agent who believes that the struggle of the political systems is further fought in the hidden. His views are initially smiled at, but when a young spy causes confusion, there is a feeling of happiness: the apparent paranoia of the Russian friend has tangible causes, and the work of the group is more than just evident.

Two aspiring filmmakers walk through Hamburg with a camera operator and a sound operator. From the time they get out bed to their encounter with a production manager, they are harassed by an intermittent white dot.

The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources, if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to raise funding for his film project. This creates an unconventional experimental setup, which reveals how the economics, politics, technology, and aesthetics of filmmaking relate to each other – with the ‘great’ Godard being called up as a kind of chief witness.

An attack on a piece of reactionary German legislation discriminating against young film directors. The film features a head-on, close-up shot of a penis ‘mouthing’ the parliamentary defense of the law by its author. A landmark in political pamphleteering, the film was selected for the 1968 Oberhausen International Short Film Festival by a committee of leading German critics and promptly banned by the city government, causing the withdrawal of almost all German directors from the festival and a national scandal. The title satirically refers to the official certificate of ‘Particularly Valuable’ given each year to the best film shorts by an Establishment selection.

A short gangster film with Godard clichés, which are used as quotations.

A short gangster film with Godard clichés, which are used as quotations.

A Super-8 film in color with sound on magnetic stripe.

A Super-8 film in color with sound on magnetic stripe.

ECHTZEIT by Hellmuth Costard and Jürgen Ebert is a film like thoughts. About reality and the digitalized world. A film about Ruth and Georg, who may no longer exist. A film about "imaginary cameras", synthetic landscapes, about (flight) simulators and Pershing II.

ECHTZEIT by Hellmuth Costard and Jürgen Ebert is a film like thoughts. About reality and the digitalized world. A film about Ruth and Georg, who may no longer exist. A film about "imaginary cameras", synthetic landscapes, about (flight) simulators and Pershing II.

ECHTZEIT by Hellmuth Costard and Jürgen Ebert is a film like thoughts. About reality and the digitalized world. A film about Ruth and Georg, who may no longer exist. A film about "imaginary cameras", synthetic landscapes, about (flight) simulators and Pershing II.

Hollywood opening credits with crashing sea waves and expectant orchestral music opens the film. Then the viewer's gaze is carried through a room. In a mirror you see for a moment a naked girl holding the recording subjective camera under her arm, she pulls open a drawer, puts the camera inside and closes the drawer. The viewer's gaze and thus the viewer himself is caught in the darkness.

A group of indispensable works in the Ruhr area on the development of a solar power plant. At first she only finds attention through a former KGB agent who believes that the struggle of the political systems is further fought in the hidden. His views are initially smiled at, but when a young spy causes confusion, there is a feeling of happiness: the apparent paranoia of the Russian friend has tangible causes, and the work of the group is more than just evident.

A group of indispensable works in the Ruhr area on the development of a solar power plant. At first she only finds attention through a former KGB agent who believes that the struggle of the political systems is further fought in the hidden. His views are initially smiled at, but when a young spy causes confusion, there is a feeling of happiness: the apparent paranoia of the Russian friend has tangible causes, and the work of the group is more than just evident.

A young man decides to leave the country after the 1965 West German parliamentary elections. He hitchhikes out of Hamburg, but makes it only as far as the Lüneburg Heath. There, he meets a woman driving a Jaguar, protects her from an “attack” by a light sport airplane and then helps her sell her car to a shepherd. When doubts arise about the buyer’s solvency, the man and woman take the train back to Hamburg …

A young man decides to leave the country after the 1965 West German parliamentary elections. He hitchhikes out of Hamburg, but makes it only as far as the Lüneburg Heath. There, he meets a woman driving a Jaguar, protects her from an “attack” by a light sport airplane and then helps her sell her car to a shepherd. When doubts arise about the buyer’s solvency, the man and woman take the train back to Hamburg …

A young man decides to leave the country after the 1965 West German parliamentary elections. He hitchhikes out of Hamburg, but makes it only as far as the Lüneburg Heath. There, he meets a woman driving a Jaguar, protects her from an “attack” by a light sport airplane and then helps her sell her car to a shepherd. When doubts arise about the buyer’s solvency, the man and woman take the train back to Hamburg …

Four young people from the former GDR want to start doing meaningful things. In spite of adverse circumstances they start the construction of an environmentally friendly solar power plant.

Four young people from the former GDR want to start doing meaningful things. In spite of adverse circumstances they start the construction of an environmentally friendly solar power plant.

Four young people from the former GDR want to start doing meaningful things. In spite of adverse circumstances they start the construction of an environmentally friendly solar power plant.

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The film begins with the Christmas preparations, so to speak, and ends with the first petrol price increase of the new year.

The movements, routines and gestures that compose an ordinary day in the life of an ordinary housewife, recorded in the minutest every more oppressive details, become a sort of catalyst by the unique and simple means of having the woman played by a man with long hair and a slightly androgynous look.

The movements, routines and gestures that compose an ordinary day in the life of an ordinary housewife, recorded in the minutest every more oppressive details, become a sort of catalyst by the unique and simple means of having the woman played by a man with long hair and a slightly androgynous look.

The movements, routines and gestures that compose an ordinary day in the life of an ordinary housewife, recorded in the minutest every more oppressive details, become a sort of catalyst by the unique and simple means of having the woman played by a man with long hair and a slightly androgynous look.

In this film, we follow footballer George Best over a 90-minute match against Coventry City, which took place on 12th September 1970. There is no soundtrack and no interview overlaid, just Best doing what he did best - playing football.