Christian Bau Movies

Short-documentary about the squat at Amandastraße 73 in Hamburg.

The artist Jürgen Vallen in the port of Hamburg, his favorite workplace. A document of obsession: port, cranes, noises, sounds, pictures,...

Detective Peter Flowers has to deal with Nola, the "most beautiful and corrupt woman in the world"...

The filmmaker Monika Treut documents in this very personal film her travels, which she undertook between 1999 and 2002. She attended film festivals...

Documentary to prevent the closing of the Thedebad in Hamburg-Altona.

“Should one turn to high culture, dive into the armed underground, or rather enjoy life?” A perplexing dilemma between art, war, and sex,...

A movie that shows conversations with a friend. It longs for clarity, not necessarily wisdom; he is looking for connections that give him meaning....

The attempt to deal with a magazine format. Topic: Work situations. "We had a binding structure. From the idea to completion four weeks à five...

In May 1968, no one passes him by: day and night, Peter Ernst Eiffe, who grew up in a Hanseatic family, is on the road in Hamburg with the felt-tip...

With its numerous interviews, the film is an inventory of current forms of resistance. It shows the strength, but also the weakness of the momentary...

Five young men ride their bicycles through the city, each of them having a piece of a huge movie advertisement attached to his bike.

Before a figure skating championship, a television announcement reminds young girls about the emancipation of women.

The documentary accompanies the history of the district, its renovation and the struggle of the population against the urban development determined...

A documentary about the 'critical mass', the Film Coop, a group of young filmmakers in Hamburg during the 1960s - a small group far from the...

The title is hopeful, the rest is different - oppressive sexuality, torture. Where should my eyes look when I have to examine eight hours of adult...

In 1922, Max Ernst produced a painting entitled “The Rendezvous of Friends”. In surrealist style, it shows his friends from Paris -...

On the occasion of the »Construction Days« in the autumn of 1969, the Hamburg Building Authority commissioned five HFBK film students to...

During an art auction, at which Gerhard Richter's “Abstraktes Bild (H.M.)” is being offered for sale, a photo of a dead man appears on...

Documentary film essay that links the fate of the New York artist Jimmy Ernst and his parents Max Ernst and Louise Straus with the history of the...

An approach from the outside: the highway, the cows, the construction sites, the skeptical press reports, the police on site, the interior senator, a...