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The son of a photographer chasing his dream of life in a deserted harbor area is reminded by a chance acquaintance that he loves the same type of woman as his father. When the New Yorker discovers her father's work, she begins to tell new stories with the old pictures, while the man is reminded of the past reality.
A journey through the history of German animated film from 1920 to 1960, spanning the avant-garde beginnings, the emigrants, the time in the Third Reich and cinema in both German states after 1945.
Diwan, a lyric anthology, an outdoor movie with people. With people living in the surrounding precious and very beautifully photographed nature, are neither more nor less than one part of it. What Nekes manages there with landscape, as a cunning and quote many fine artist in a medium that runs in time, as he defeated the time changed, by themselves for change of scenery uses, as it interferes with the laws of chronology through the rewind ability of the camera or destroyed, which is a compelling and highly aesthetic experimental company.
A pseudo-scientific analysis of a cartographical enigma which arose when the frontier between East and West Germany was erased. "The Border" delivers an intelligent study of an age-old German problem of borders and walls long since gone which nevertheless remain in the head.
An expedition report (a winter sailing trip down the Elbe), and a document about filmmakers who leave a city because it's more hospitable elsewhere, reflections, reflexes.
A female figure wanders inside a warehouse interior and through various motifs, including a fan and a birdcage, set to a medieval chant.
A society is described in which everyone only has six days to live. The film follows two of these people through their existence. People are born by appearing, they die by disappearing. When all the people appearing in the film died in a more or less natural way, large telegraph poles announce their work on earth.
A short film
A cloud of black dust, one of white dust, and the world.
An animated short film based on the famous fairytale by the Brothers Grimm about the enterprising cat in boots and a feather hat, who manages to procure for his poor master a princess, an ogre's castle, and a kingdom.
Handbrushes, collected from the rubble in the ruins of a former ship's propeller factory, have grown beaks. In a conference they connect the built-in obsolescence and the belief in economic progress with the moon.
Short stop motion animation by Franz Winzentsen.