Michael Brynntrup Movies

My day in the yearly film.

An experimental short film about birth and death.

Safe sex in the 70ies. Bigger than life in 35mm. All you can eat in 5 minutes.

The city, the traffic jam, and the trashcan, - a post-painterly music clip.

My apartment has a nice lay-out. There are a lot of paintings on the walls. I have a big carpet, too.

My first video take, - a film, that rhymes between the lines.

Women piss too - only less.

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

Diary film: Every person has their own taboos.

Totenkopf (The Skull), highest elevation of the 'Kaiserstuhl' (557m). - Kaiserstuhl, upper Rhineland mountains with terminal moraine (30m high). -...

"Gravediggers: species of beetles, black, live off cadavers of small animals, which they roll into balls."

Michael Brynntrup’s first 8mm feature: an autobiographical travel diary made in Italy (1981) in which the young filmmaker films his own journey...

As said. - A film like its title.

"Death mask: facial imprint of the deceased in soft plaster or wax."

The joint high mess of 80s German underground: An exercise in exquisite corps (and in some cases probably also automatic writing) for which artists...

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...

Immanuel Kant Hospital in Neukölln, Berlin. Midnight. A patient is being admitted. TV journalists are on the spot. The beginning of a story that...

Michael Brynntrup takes the biblical prohibition of images literally...

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

Where I come from, people stay at home. Except when they go on holiday or off to war.