Directing

Bernd Upnmoor

Born 1940-05-13 · Hamburg, Germany

Bernd Upnmoor is a German avant-garde filmmaker and actor. He lives and works in Hamburg.

Acting credits

Hurrycan poster
NR

Hurrycan has nothing to do with whirlwinds, although in this Nekes film the pictures journey across the screen, excitedly, spasmodically and flickering. The title weds the element of haste with the notion of a film can, which in this case turns out to be something of a Pandora's Box and contains expectations for a new way of seeing. A computerized shutter system that Nekes had built.

Hurrycan

1979

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This film subtly contrasts banal reality with parody, using technical film techniques like time lapse and color filtering to parallel a home theater screening with a seduction scene. The director skillfully stimulates the viewer’s erotic imagination in a delicate and ironic manner, while also incorporating amateur film flaws dramaturgically and adding a socially critical, satirical element.

Unsere Ferienreise

1970

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9.0

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 Critical Mass

1999

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Horly

1979

Lagado poster
9.0

An experimental film about the interpenetration of various levels of communication, dealing with the relationship of the pictorial functions to those of sound (direct sound).

Lagado

1977

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5.5

In conversations with his friends and colleagues, among them Bernd Upnmoor, Helmut Herbst, Alexander Kluge, Klaus Wyborny, Daniel Kothenschulte and Helge Schneider, Ulrike Pfeiffer takes us on a journey into the broad expanse of Nekes' cabinet of wonder and his cinematic works. At the same time, this documentary provides an insight into the history of experimental film in Germany.

Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures

2017

Behind the camera

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NR

Short film that might or might not be about murder.

Der Lustmörder

1968

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NR

Short film that might or might not be about murder.

Der Lustmörder

1968

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NR

Short film that might or might not be about murder.

Der Lustmörder

1968

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NR

A film director's personal ad, seeking a woman who is also a filmmaker.

The Want Ad

1970

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NR

This film subtly contrasts banal reality with parody, using technical film techniques like time lapse and color filtering to parallel a home theater screening with a seduction scene. The director skillfully stimulates the viewer’s erotic imagination in a delicate and ironic manner, while also incorporating amateur film flaws dramaturgically and adding a socially critical, satirical element.

Unsere Ferienreise

1970

No artwork available
NR

This film subtly contrasts banal reality with parody, using technical film techniques like time lapse and color filtering to parallel a home theater screening with a seduction scene. The director skillfully stimulates the viewer’s erotic imagination in a delicate and ironic manner, while also incorporating amateur film flaws dramaturgically and adding a socially critical, satirical element.

Unsere Ferienreise

1970

No artwork available
NR

This film subtly contrasts banal reality with parody, using technical film techniques like time lapse and color filtering to parallel a home theater screening with a seduction scene. The director skillfully stimulates the viewer’s erotic imagination in a delicate and ironic manner, while also incorporating amateur film flaws dramaturgically and adding a socially critical, satirical element.

Unsere Ferienreise

1970

No artwork available
NR

A landscape is filmed with a single-frame camera 48 hours from a point of view.

Kugeloberflächen

1985

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NR

A landscape is filmed with a single-frame camera 48 hours from a point of view.

Kugeloberflächen

1985

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NR

Bernd Upnmoor's Dom the title refers to the famous funfair at Hamburg - varies an increasingly meaningless shot of a few minutes on a carousel by exploring all the possibilities of colour film techniques and succeeds (in Upnmoor's words) in "making the viewers' senses tremble and flutter."

DOM

1980

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NR

The great, increasing intensity of the film results from an interaction of the actress and camera not yet attempted in this way. The phases of emotions of a life lived through in a few minutes - the theme that the film has posed - are completely expressed. Time-lapse and delay immediately express the external process, the performer adequately succeeds in demonstrating the internal processes. Interesting are the nuances with which the color scheme follows the development of the idea. This applies here in a special way also from the acoustic processing.

Alice Down Wonderland

1973

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NR

Sunsets instead of TV.

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