The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall.
Anna is milking the cows, Jakob smokes pot, Berni works on a telescope and Ulrike celebrates her birthday. So far, everything is fine in Otto's farm. When Ulrike's coffee cup breaks on the kitchen floor, something dark breaks loose. Sometimes the devil has to take the hindmost.
Using a collage of found footage, this documentary essay examines humanity's conflicted relationship with fire - tracing its journey from control and mastery to destructive power, reflects on masculinity and the cost of progress and hubris.
A family lives in a house in the woods.
A journey through the chronology, aftermath and a potential conclusion of a military conflict, as reflected in the topographies that the war, either physically or contextually, shaped and altered.
Five young men ride their bicycles through the city, each of them having a piece of a huge movie advertisement attached to his bike.
The young girls Kate and Echo live in their own land of make believe. When one of them stumbles across the real world, their friendship faces a serious challenge.
It’s summer and the streets are almost empty in a small town, once the centre of the metalworking industry in former Yugoslavia. People gather at the public swimming pool. Two friends are saying goodbye.
A performance television show hosted by the presenter Ruth. With humor, she interviews Leila Mousavi, Nicholas Mboya, and Vicente Hirmas, graduating art students from HFBK. Filmed in July 2023.
The film portrays life on the Balduintreppe in Hamburg during the 1980s and early 1990s and thus takes us right into the heart of the time of the Hafenstrasse squat, which in many respects was a turning point. It circles the harbor steps, relives the squatters' battles with the police and visits the residents between utopia and the housing struggle.
Géographie imaginaire is a subjective report on a deliberatly non-documentary, i.e. imaginary journey. Pauline M’Barek’s video is based on intimate observations that she made during the preparations and traditional rites for her female cousin’s wedding in Tunisia.
Short documentary about a Hamburg tenants' initiative that is fighting for its neighborhood.
Men are felling trees in the rain forest, barefoot, using chainsaws to cut through the huge trunks. They live in nature, off nature and against nature. Illegal wood selling seems to be their only chance to feed their families. At the same time, they are destroying – tree by tree – their own livelihood. This quiet observation ends with the arduous transport of the wood out of the forest. Anyone who thinks ahead knows that it will end up in our apartments, too, as a mahogany table or Bangkirai floor.
14-year-old Margarita is walking through the streets of a small village in Tyrol. A thunderstorm passes by at dusk and no one is on the streets. She lets herself drift, and through the brightly lit windows she observes the lives of others.
A property shark wakes up in an empty hotel on the Baltic coast. He knows this place. He had wanted to buy it. But how did he end up in the attic? And who is the dancing girl in the hotel disco?
This video portrait by Prof. Gerd Roscher and Sünke Michel, Bergmann-Michel's daughter-in-law and photographer, explores the making of Ella Bergmann-Michel's experimental documentary films. It features still photographs from her films, which had not yet been recovered at the time, and handwritten intertitles are commented on by her son Hans Michel.
A man breaks up with his girlfriend.
The mythical character "Krahnstöver" is the secret sovereign over the tides in Hamburg, using his oversensitive ear and other measuring devices to control the city's fate
An empty bench next to an old farm on a hill. A corridor flooded with light, from which doors lead into different rooms. Two chairs with patterned cushions in front of a woodchip wallpaper. The swinging pendulum of the wooden wall clock, which takes us to different places and times with its rhythmic ticking.
Last summer we found a photograph on the street. What is to be recovered when the image is given back its movement?
