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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 happy to answer his door to strangers and kill them outright. As with many shy loner types he has a problem dealing with women so he drugs them and photographs their nude bodies for sexual stimulation. He then murders his helpless victims and so goes the life of a deranged serial killer.
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 tells itself. - And a self-portrait in broadcast and artistic media.
Photographer Jürgen Baldiga (1959-1993) and filmmaker Michael Brynntrup, - privat discourses and personal investigations of how to deal with images of life and death.
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 noon, the main character arrives at this inevitable place.
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. The artist is Orpheus, of all the first. - Following him, the same they do, - Overcoming death's steady flow, - While winning the moment for ever.
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 have the guts. - By the way, I took that shot by self-timer.
An educational training film.
As said. - A film like its title.
My apartment has a nice lay-out. There are a lot of paintings on the walls. I have a big carpet, too.
"Death mask: facial imprint of the deceased in soft plaster or wax."
"Deathbirds: birds, e.g. raven, dove as animals of the soul (see soul)"