Michael Brynntrup
Nacimiento : 1959-02-07, Münster, Germany
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It's not about how a drag queen moves, it's what she sets in motion.
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It's not about how a drag queen moves, it's what she sets in motion.
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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.
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Captures the violence and tenderness, alongside the dominance and submission, that is found in a single, intimate embrace.
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A queer karaoke video short from Berlin filmmaking icon Michael Brynntrup. Who is this thing...? Who is that girl...? Who is "The Girl From Ipanema"...? And: who sings the song...?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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WALK / DON'T WALK / WALK. The rhythm of the nineties.
A music stroll along Christopher Street.
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About which one cannot speak, one must make films.
(loosely based on Ludwig Wittgenstein)
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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.
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The ECG of metempsychosis (from the genes to the zodiac).
Electrographics of the 4th Dimension.
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Applause: the echo of a platitude.
(Ambrose Bierce)
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Photographer Jürgen Baldiga (1959-1993) and filmmaker Michael Brynntrup, - privat discourses and personal investigations of how to deal with images of life and death.
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Interesting! - Hot! - Films!
(trailer to the International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Berlin 1995)
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The desolate stretch of land on an overgrown graveyard: on June 17th, 1983 a main character crosses the dead no-man's land, - an incident.
Ten years later: on October 3rd, 1993, - an inspection.
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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.
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The ECG of metempsychosis. Electrographics of the 4th Dimension.
(The family chronicle of a bachelor, self portrait as autobiography).
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The city, the traffic jam, and the trashcan, - a post-painterly music clip.
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Safe sex in the 70ies. Bigger than life in 35mm. All you can eat in 5 minutes.
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Safe sex in the 70ies. Bigger than life in 35mm. All you can eat in 5 minutes.
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Safe sex in the 70ies. Bigger than life in 35mm. All you can eat in 5 minutes.
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My first video take, - a film, that rhymes between the lines.
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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.
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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.
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Lothar Schramm es un taxista berlinés que vive enamorado de su vecina, una prostituta sadomasoquista, y vive atormentado contemplando la llegada de clientes al domicilio. Él es un vecino ejemplar, que hasta le prepara el café, le sirve de chofer y hasta cenan juntos... pero cuando está a solas da rienda suelta a sus perversiones esquizofrénicas y paranoicas.
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For better or for worse... Provisions, while things are still working.
(first TV commercial for a german undertaker)
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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)
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(Visuals for a live performance of the band Maria Kron aka Maria Lux)
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Explores the mobile meanings of language in film with the help of sophisticated telecommunications; an aural/oral offering.
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Explores the mobile meanings of language in film with the help of sophisticated telecommunications; an aural/oral offering.
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Explores the mobile meanings of language in film with the help of sophisticated telecommunications; an aural/oral offering.
Tante Ida
Explores the mobile meanings of language in film with the help of sophisticated telecommunications; an aural/oral offering.
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Explores the mobile meanings of language in film with the help of sophisticated telecommunications; an aural/oral offering.
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Life is a deadly illness, which is carried over by sexual contacts.
(Graffitti on a public toilet, 1990) - A historically-current anti-aids clip.
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"Death mask: facial imprint of the deceased in soft plaster or wax."
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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.
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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.
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Rests and tests from the inquiry into prototypes.
Formal proofs through pregnant experiments on one's own body.
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"Do you really think I give you a chance at me?" - Practice Film for ZDF.
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As said. (Super8)
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"blind spot: term for a currently not reachable or visible space."
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"Deathbirds: birds, e.g. raven, dove as animals of the soul (see soul)"
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"Stillbirth: the birth of an at least 35 cm long foetus"
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"Gravediggers: species of beetles, black, live off cadavers of small animals, which they roll into balls."
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I am now going to experience a possible birth, - the procedure of which can obviously vary.
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Totenkopf (The Skull), highest elevation of the 'Kaiserstuhl' (557m). - Kaiserstuhl, upper Rhineland mountains with terminal moraine (30m high). - Moraine, a sediment also containing artifacts and skeletal remains.
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My day in the yearly film.
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Diary film: Every person has their own taboos.
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Women piss too - only less.
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Cinema not as the uterus for dreaming but as a test of patience.
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A Collage of TV- and moviefootage from september 1981
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An experimental short film about birth and death.
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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.
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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...
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In his short film VERONIKA (VERA IKON) experimental filmmaker Michael Brynntrup takes the biblical prohibition of images literally
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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)
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My apartment has a nice lay-out.
There are a lot of paintings on the walls. I have a big carpet, too.
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Fruits and classical music and punks.
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The original is in motion. The identity is being denied.
On the very first take I wanted to pose naked in front of the camera. But I guess I didn't have the guts. - By the way, I took that shot by self-timer.
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As said. - A film like its title.
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The title of this film isn't -as is mistakenly assumed- 'Moving Pictures for the Movement Disabled'. ... an educational training film.
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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. The artist is Orpheus, of all the first. - Following him, the same they do, - Overcoming death's steady flow, - While winning the moment for ever.
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Trailer to »The Deathstrip - A German Film«: a melodrama, an incident, a location survey.
(Contribution No.36 to the Super8 trailer show »Overnight Fame«)
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Where I come from, people stay at home. Except when they go on holiday or off to war.
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The last remains of the deathstrip.
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Between an overgrown West Berlin graveyard and a desolate stretch of land under communist rule, there is a supposedly dead no-man's land. - Around noon, the main character arrives at this inevitable place.
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Rhythm in the age of its digital producability - an oscilloscope loosely based on Eadweard Muybridge.
