Michael Brynntrup Movies

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...

For better or for worse... Provisions, while things are still working. (first TV commercial for a german undertaker)

Diary film: Every person has their own taboos.

The joint high mess of 80s German underground: An exercise in exquisite corps (and in some cases probably also automatic writing) for which artists...

Applause: the echo of a platitude. (Ambrose Bierce)

Intermezzo: 1. A brief entr'acte. 2a. A short movement separating the major sections of a symphonic work. 2b. An independent instrumental composition...

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...

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,...

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...

Totenkopf (The Skull), highest elevation of the 'Kaiserstuhl' (557m). - Kaiserstuhl, upper Rhineland mountains with terminal moraine (30m high). -...

My first video take, - a film, that rhymes between the lines.

Michael Brynntrup takes the biblical prohibition of images literally...

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

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

This film is based upon true occurrences. Any resemblance to individuals, dead or alive, is not only intentional, but unavoidable. - Excerpts from my...

As said. (Super8)

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

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

"Gravediggers: species of beetles, black, live off cadavers of small animals, which they roll into balls."

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...