Michael Brynntrup Movies

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. ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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,...

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

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

An experimental short film about birth and death.

A Collage of TV- and moviefootage from september 1981

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)

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...

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

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

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