Documentary film.

Nicholas gets an unexpected visit from his past, and memories of life changing choices and long lost love are brought back to life.

The only film that Kurt Kühn made (alongside a few commissioned works) has 44,701 images. 44,701 images run in front of the viewer according to an open structural principle and refer to the basis of every film: individual images that are combined into movements of all kinds. Time plays a major role in X-Bilder.

In Rogaland, Norway, 900 meters above the sea, the dancer Cesilie Kverneland is moving in tactile contact with the surrounding nature, and her inside images. Accompanied by a poem by the Norwegian poet Gunnar Roalkvam, and music by John Derek Bishop

The history of the magic lantern with demonstrations of moving slides, watertank or polarisation slides, followed by images on paper, which are brought to life with mechanical manipulations, with light shining through them or as panorama.

The monotonous round of everyday life and how to break free. There is always a way to color your day!

An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the "prehistory" of cinema. Werner Nekes charts the fascination with moving pictures which led to the birth of film, covering shadow plays, peep shows, flip books, flicks, magic lanterns, lithopanes, panoramic, scrolls, colorful forms of early animation, and numerous other historical artiffices. Working with these formats, early "producers" created melodramas, comedies, -- as well as lots of pornography -- anticipating most of the forms known today. Nekes probes these colorful toys and inventions in a rich and rewarding optical experience. Film Before Film is a bewildering assault of exotic (and sometimes erotic) images and illusions.

Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the German army in WWI and was killed two weeks later. This painful tragedy changed Kollwitz's life and art forever.

Documentary film.

Documentary film.

An odyssey through Norway from south to north. A beautifully filmed cavalcade of the nation's businesses, such as agriculture, forestry, fishing, whaling and industry, and Norway’s geography, culture, history and society.

Scenes of everyday life in South Africa which give an idea of the daily racism in this country.

Refreshingly, Farocki lays his cards on the table at the very beginning of the film, “I want to demonstrate that most feature films are of the sort that make people lose their interest and appetite for the real world”.

A room above the slaughterhouse. While the animals are beeing butchered below, upstairs an adult is playing out scenes of early puberty. The woman in the room of the slaughterhouse cuts off all his hair. Aloud the man reads a story of the unrestrained Scheherazade. The children cheerfully cook the dog’s carcass and the adults resolutety expose their private parts... „Memories and dreams, which were banned in the cinema until now and which have magically freed themselves from the chains of the prohibitions and the realms of the taboos.“ (D. Kuhlbrodt)