Movies: Michael Brynntrup

Lothar Schramm is a simple man with complex problems, yet he seems like such a nice guy. He works as a taxi driver and lives by himself where he is happy to answer his door to strangers and kill them outright. As with many shy loner types he has a pr...

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....

Rhythm in the age of its digital producability - an oscilloscope loosely based on Eadweard Muybridge....

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....

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....

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)...

The last remains of the deathstrip....

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....

Cinema not as the uterus for dreaming but as a test of patience....

Fruits and classical music and punks....

For better or for worse... Provisions, while things are still working. (first TV commercial for a german undertaker)...

Applause: the echo of a platitude. (Ambrose Bierce)...

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....

As said. (Super8)...

Life is a deadly illness, which is carried over by sexual contacts. (Graffitti on a public toilet, 1990) - A historically-current anti-aids clip....

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)...

Trailer to »The Deathstrip - A German Film«: a melodrama, an incident, a location survey. (Contribution No.36 to the Super8 trailer show »Overnight Fame«)...

Photographer Jürgen Baldiga (1959-1993) and filmmaker Michael Brynntrup, - privat discourses and personal investigations of how to deal with images of life and death....

My day in the yearly film....

Captures the violence and tenderness, alongside the dominance and submission, that is found in a single, intimate embrace....