Antigone

Antigone 1992

5.90

A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian tyrant Creon by burying him.

1992

Black Sin

Black Sin 1989

4.30

A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich Hölderlin’s play ‘Der Tod Des Empedokles’.

1989

From Today Until Tomorrow

From Today Until Tomorrow 1997

5.30

Based on a rarely performed Schoenberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a marriage. A husband and wife return from a party where she has flirted with another man while he has cast an appraising eye toward one of her acquaintances. Each dreams, briefly, of leaving the marriage for the excitement and mystery of a new lover.

1997

Lothringen!

Lothringen! 1994

6.20

About the history of the French region of Lorraine, called Lothringen in German.

1994