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...

Explores the mobile meanings of language in film with the help of sophisticated telecommunications; an aural/oral offering.

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

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

About which one cannot speak, one must make films. (loosely based on Ludwig Wittgenstein)

Rests and tests from the inquiry into prototypes. Formal proofs through pregnant experiments on one's own body.

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.

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...

The last remains of the deathstrip.

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

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. ...

An educational training film.

As said. - A film like its title.

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...

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

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

"Stillbirth: the birth of an at least 35 cm long foetus"

"Deathbirds: birds, e.g. raven, dove as animals of the soul (see soul)"

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

"blind spot: term for a currently not reachable or visible space."

Rests and tests from the inquiry into prototypes. Formal proofs through pregnant experiments on one's own body.

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

Intermezzo: 1. A brief entr'acte. 2a. A short movement separating the major sections of a symphonic work. 2b. An independent instrumental composition...

As said. - bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravissimo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo,...

As said. (Super8)

I am now going to experience a possible birth, - the procedure of which can obviously vary.

"Do you really think I give you a chance at me?" - Practice Film for ZDF.

Homosexuality is inherited, and comes from the stress caused by metabolic disturbances in the mother's body. (Hormone Scientist Prof. Günther...

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

(Visuals for a live performance of the band Maria Kron aka Maria Lux)

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)

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

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

The ECG of metempsychosis. Electrographics of the 4th Dimension. (The family chronicle of a bachelor, self portrait as autobiography).

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...

Interesting! - Hot! - Films! (trailer to the International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Berlin 1995)

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

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

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...

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

The ECG of metempsychosis (from the genes to the zodiac). Electrographics of the 4th Dimension.

This film is based upon true occurrences. Any resemblance to individuals, dead or alive, is not only intentional, but unavoidable. - Excerpts from my...

About which one cannot speak, one must make films. (loosely based on Ludwig Wittgenstein)

WALK / DON'T WALK / WALK. The rhythm of the nineties. A tribute to the vital New York drag scene and the "electronic" 90's that is also a remembrance...

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

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

Explores the mobile meanings of language in film with the help of sophisticated telecommunications; an aural/oral offering.

Explores the mobile meanings of language in film with the help of sophisticated telecommunications; an aural/oral offering.

Explores the mobile meanings of language in film with the help of sophisticated telecommunications; an aural/oral offering.

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

A queer karaoke video short from Berlin filmmaking icon Michael Brynntrup. Who is this thing...? Who is that girl...? Who is "The Girl From...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

A Collage of TV- and moviefootage from september 1981

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

Diary film: Every person has their own taboos.

My day in the yearly film.

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

Women piss too - only less.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

A catalogue of psychodramatic rituals, a series of theme and variations Bach might have named The Art of the Skull. Photographed entirely in super-8,...

It's not about how a drag queen moves, it's what she sets in motion.

It's not about how a drag queen moves, it's what she sets in motion.

An experimental short film about birth and death.

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...

Explores the mobile meanings of language in film with the help of sophisticated telecommunications; an aural/oral offering.

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.

A short film by the German experimental filmmaker Michael Brynntrup from 1993. The film describes a surrealistic and absurd cycle of activities in a...

A short film by the German experimental filmmaker Michael Brynntrup from 1993. The film describes a surrealistic and absurd cycle of activities in a...

Fruits and classical music and punks.

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...

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...

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...

About which one cannot speak, one must make films. (loosely based on Ludwig Wittgenstein)

About which one cannot speak, one must make films. (loosely based on Ludwig Wittgenstein)

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

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