Botow
The story of the dog from the title, who in a frame narrative explains how he came to be transformed from an unemployed communist filmmaker into a canine with a philosophical bent. Unable to finance his new project, young Berlin-based director Julian tells foreign exchange student Camille that his job in the countryside is research for an upcoming film. When Camille offers to help, he is forced to uphold the lie. The plantation isn’t the proletarian idyll he had hoped for, but fortunately the reincarnation of Francis of Assisi provides spiritual insight and a new aim in life.
Film by Wolfgang Schmidt.
Director of Photography
“Why does cinema need death, when it can’t show it?” The filmmaker’s monologue and the discourse of images meet
Still Photographer
People are dying mysteriously and gruesomely, and nobody has a clue what the cause is. Only health worker Mike Brady has a possible solution, but his theory of killer slugs is laughed at by the authorities. Only when the body count begins to rise and a slug expert from England begins snooping around does it begin to look like Mike had the right idea after all.
Cinematography
Documentary about highway constructions in Nazi Germany.
Cinematography
Documentary about American filmmaker Abraham Polonsky.
Director of Photography
Documentary by Helma Sanders-Brahms.
Cinematography
Hans Magnus Enzensberger's film about Spanish anarchist Buenaventura Durruti (1896-1936).
Director of Photography
An educational film about an aspect of political economy. The concepts of use value, barter value and labor as a commodity are the subjects; they are intended to introduce the process of understanding the theory of value of work and the law of values, alienation and fetish.
Polonsky's Assistant
In this comedy, Iris Berben plays a mysterious, supernaturally beautiful girl from another planet, who confuses and flusters the men on earth, where she has landed. The men follow her wherever she goes. Marquard Bohm is no exception here - he leaves his wife in a lurch and travels with the Supergirl to Spain. The girl doesn't tell much about herself; she reports, though, about an impending threat from outer space.
Cinematography
TV movie by Farocki and Bitomsky.
Cinematography
Writer
Short avantgarde film about the theory of political activism.
Director
Short avantgarde film about the theory of political activism.
Cinematography
Short experimental film by (and starring) Skip Norman dealing with racism, black/white relations, the blues.
Producer
A film about the feeling of beeing under attack.
Writer
A film about the feeling of beeing under attack.
Director
A film about the feeling of beeing under attack.
Editor
Activist short about the Vietnam war.
Writer
Activist short about the Vietnam war.
Director
Activist short about the Vietnam war.
Wanderer
Atmospheric short based on the aesthetics of Dreyer.
Director
Men playing a card game and stripping.
