Icons & Media Art

This documentary draws viewers' attention to an equally neglected and essential process in the cultural economy: the ticket.

A mother shares her thoughts with her unborn child. It is a glimpse into an uncertain future and yet full of hope.

IT WORKS tells seemingly ordinary stories that are a celebration of the individual achievements of the four protagonists.

Two strangers, Lisa and Jos, go to San Francisco to find out, if there is sexual intercourse - based on french philosopher Jean-Luc Nancys text.

PARABETON shows in chronological sequence 17 buildings by the Italian engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) in Italy and France.

This visually stunning monumental work is an emphatic reminder of the enduring threat of total annihilation by nuclear weapons.

Michael Brynntrup investigates artwork in the age of artificial reproducibility by means of transmedial self-portraits.

A hospital in Berlin-Neukölln at midnight. A patient is being admitted. TV journalists are on the scene. The beginning of a story that tells itself.

On the river Tetscha in the southern Urals, in the middle of nowhere between Europe and Asia, is the most radioactively contaminated area in the world

Can a documentary depict reality? Should it even try? Constanze Ruhm examines how reality and the construction of reality are different.

Documentary filmmaker Heinz Emigholz sketches a biography of the French architects and civil engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret and their buildings.

A curator of contemporary art, is in trouble with her sponsors because of remarks she made in a radio interview. Public funding is put on hold.

Berlin filmmaker Michael Brynntrup exposes his own sex life in a radical, relentless yet humorous invasion of privacy.

With camera angles reminiscent of paintings, up-and-coming star from Brazil Afonso Uchôa explores the beauty of everyday gestures and moments.

"For me, Berlin died when the Volksbühne dismantled the wheel and a cross was erected at Berlin Castle." Antonio Nábolo

Shot on Super 8mm, Bernadette Weigel's homage to traveling celebrates the uniqueness of each moment.

To pursue her dream of becoming a singer, an Afghan girl lives as a boy.

Germany was once a torn country divided into East and West. Post-war architecture keeps the memory of this era alive.

In restrictive Afghanistan, there are girls who are raised as boys and this is culturally established.

This work investigates a controversial mass performance from the late Yugoslav era – the Youth Day celebration (“slet”) in 1987.

The doc about the cult surrounding a Soviet physicist Boris Zolotov was awarded the ARTE documentary award.

We are accumulating more and more data, images and sound snippets. But how can we remember when digital materials marked by decay fail?

Fleeting glimpses into the inner life of private and public spaces, intimacy and spectacle.

Juliane Ebner embarks on a very personal search for traces of the war in former Yugoslavia. A film about us, our neighbors, neglect and the aftermath.

While researching for the film Das Netz, Lutz Dammbeck came across the exhibition "Software. Information technology: its new meaning for art".

Lutz Dammbeck talks with Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) about T.A.Z., Ted Kaczynski, Islam, Marvin Minsky, Cusanus and natural philosophy.

A montage of TV images of the trial of Ted Kaczynski, better known as the "Unabomber."

The story of Hercules is well-known: son of Zeus and Alcmene, hero and god, famous for his twelve labours.

A portrait of the artists Cornelia Schleime, Hans-Hendrik Grimmling and Hans Scheib who left the GDR for West Berlin between 1984 and 1985.

REALFilm is Lutz Dammbck's examination of film and filmmaking, a film in real time, a collage in space involving the audience.

In 1984, a group of artists occupied an exhibition center in Leipzig.

Together with the dancer Fine Kwiatkowski, Lutz Dammbeck rehearses some elements for the planned performance of his media collages.

From 3 to 7 September 1929, a congress of independent avant-garde-filmmakers took place at La Sarraz castle in Switzerland.

This film was first planned in 1976 for an interdisciplinary exhibition of six Leipzig artists called ‘Tangente I’.

Alucinio wanders aimlessly through an ice desert. A poulterer saves him from freezing to death and leads Alucinio into the world of porn philosophy.

In, part one of this sci-fi triology, a vertical solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been found.

In a temporal twist, this movie tells the story of an intervention into the future perception of a territory’s political history.

A SPACE EXODUS is the first part of Larissa Sansour’s Palestinian science fiction trilogy.

A fascinating document about the last Polish president not elected democratically.

In a Dada-inspired retelling of the New Testament on Super8, 22 filmmakers and Michael Brynntrup explore faith and art in 35 episodes.

Wilfried has sold umbrellas all his life but he can no longer keep up with the technological requirements of the modern day.

1973: Adolf Hitler's former personal physician Ilse von Blitzen wants to revive the dictator. Only Captain Berlin can stop her.

A short film by Berlin-based film icon Michael Brynntrup full of photographs collected from personal profiles in gay chat rooms on the internet.

UNPUBLISHED!- A BONUS TRACK is a bonus interview from the Michael Brynntrup film THE OVO, which appeared on the special edition DVD 'Berlinale Rolle 2', ...

THE OVO (OVO - THE VIDEO) is a short film by Berlin film artist and icon Michael Brynntrup. "It's not about how a drag queen moves, it's about what she ...

Michael Brynntrup, in his unmistakable style, was already anticipating developments in the media in the early 2000s.

"An outstanding piece by Michael Brynntrup that captures the violence and tenderness, alongside the dominance and submission, that is found in a single, ...

IPANEMA LIP SYNC is a queer karaoke video short from Berlin filmmaking icon Michael Brynntrup.

A look back at body modifications in the early 2000s.

GENDER AGENDA is a compilation of eight queer short films by Berlin experimental filmmaking icon Michael Brynntrup.

WALK / DON'T WALK / WALK. The rhythm of the nineties. A musical stroll along Christopher Street.

Udo Kier walks a black-humored, fine line between avant-garde and trash, which is tantamount to an act of unleashing.

This short film "takes the ‘cum-shot’ to new heights with a montage of some of the wildest, orgasmic, facial expressions." (Boys On Film #6)

This short film by Michael Brynntrup, is "a spontaneous, kitschy, unerring, and spicy parable about mutual understanding featuring the world famous underground ...

"A superb biography - a pseudo-scientific collection of curiosities with puns turning artistic somersaults."

An amusing journey through the Berlin Drag-Queen scene of the 80s in five short films by Michael Brynntrup.

Long seemed invalid the Prophet's word, / But honored it was, by the outcome at last: / How odd the madness, how strange a death! (Ovid, Metamorphoses) NARCISSUS ...

In his short film VERONIKA (VERA IKON) experimental filmmaker Michael Brynntrup takes the biblical prohibition of images literally.

A funny and complex examination of the psychotherapy boom.