Art

The tragic story of an artist who was torn between passion and obsession and died under mysterious circumstances.

Props play a crucial role in every movie, yet they are rarely consciously noticed - the big and small things on the set.

In the heart of Berlin, a GDR ruin is given a new lease on life and becomes a center for art, culture and community.

A feverish Schlingensief documentary by Bettina Böhler, a renowned editor, portraying this exceptional artist in his full range.

Pittiplatsch, star of GDR children's television has a dark secret. Pitti was an avant-garde artist and informer for the state security service.

The portrait of an artist who in all his art and with his whole being questioned the existing social system.

This travel diary describes the journey of the painter Paul Klee in Egypt between 1928 and 1929 through his letters and his paintings.

Parov Stelar, is regarded as the founder of electro swing. His unique sound has been conquering concert halls around the world for more than 15 years.

Roland Klick is a film history legend. He made movies with Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, then mysteriously faded away after only six films.

PARABETON shows in chronological sequence 17 buildings by the Italian engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) in Italy and France.

Michael Brynntrup investigates artwork in the age of artificial reproducibility by means of transmedial self-portraits.

Two years before his death, the HIV-positive Baldiga reviews his life, in selected episodes.

As a pioneer of the Fluxus movement she revolutionized the concept of art and made history with contemporaries Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage.

The penguins encounter Swiss alpine cows, swim in the river, walk leisurely through the city center... they are everywhere. An adventure begins.

Berlin filmmaker Michael Brynntrup exposes his own sex life in a radical, relentless yet humorous invasion of privacy.

Jakob Fisch confesses to a murder he did not commit. Police psychologist Dr. Alea Anzu then tries to convict him of lying.

Elfie Semotan, known for her sophisticated visual arrangements, is considered the "grande dame" of Austrian photography.

Shot on Super 8mm, Bernadette Weigel's homage to traveling celebrates the uniqueness of each moment.

Daniel Spoerri is one of the most important representatives of object art, co-founder of the artist group Nouveau Réalisme and inventor of Eat-Art.

The sky is their canvas, the airplane their brush. The Stinis family has been making history in skywriting and painting messages on the sky.

We are accumulating more and more data, images and sound snippets. But how can we remember when digital materials marked by decay fail?

A warm-hearted yet stylistically radical film portrait in black and white and color about Edgar Reitz and his encounter with a young female filmmaker.

In the 90s, first attacks on paintings in art galleries and later bombings by German identity movement shocks Austria.

A portrait of a ‘German socialist art’ in the GDR up to the building of the wall in 1961.

At the beginning of the last century, Arno Breker was one of the great hopes of young German sculpture, esteemed by the painter Max Liebermann.

The story of Hercules is well-known: son of Zeus and Alcmene, hero and god, famous for his twelve labours.

A portrait of the artists Cornelia Schleime, Hans-Hendrik Grimmling and Hans Scheib who left the GDR for West Berlin between 1984 and 1985.

REALFilm is Lutz Dammbck's examination of film and filmmaking, a film in real time, a collage in space involving the audience.

In 1984, a group of artists occupied an exhibition center in Leipzig.

Together with the dancer Fine Kwiatkowski, Lutz Dammbeck rehearses some elements for the planned performance of his media collages.

From 3 to 7 September 1929, a congress of independent avant-garde-filmmakers took place at La Sarraz castle in Switzerland.

This film was first planned in 1976 for an interdisciplinary exhibition of six Leipzig artists called ‘Tangente I’.

A 35mm camera films from a window, with messages from the answering machine in the background. Slowly an imaginary biography unfolds.

Christoph Schlingensief's provocative works are still highly topical even after 20 years.

Where does artistic freedom begin and where does it end? And, does art actually still need artists?

In one of Jerusalems oldest tattoo studio Jews, Christians, Muslims and atheists get their tattoos done.

The Dadaist artist collective Gelitin is known for its sensational, worldwide art happenings.

A fairytale-like story with tableaux vivants of three macabre, mystical and humorous nymphs.

Portrait of five female Viennese artists, who in their pioneering role have left their mark on contemporary art.

As a child, Veronika Raila was certified with an IQ of zero. Today she studies literature and theology and publishes poetry and prose.

A visit to the breathtaking places and the people who unlock the secrets of the universe.

Portrait of action artist, environmental activist, natural philosopher, gallery owner and "anarchist" Ben Wagin.

In, part one of this sci-fi triology, a vertical solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been found.

This documentary accompanies the artist Vera Lossau for a year in her creative process with a focus on Vera's visual observations.

In a temporal twist, this movie tells the story of an intervention into the future perception of a territory’s political history.

Mana lives in her own world, smokes weed and all her energy flows into her films. But when she meets Asten at a party, everything changes.

Join real legends of the Berlin graffiti underground culture on a trip through the city.

What's reality and what's art? What happens when the tables are turned, and art no longer imitates nature but things go the other way round?

The ambassador of the state of Arcadia, occupies land and declares this occupied area to be Arcadian territory. Is this even legal?

The docu-fictional companion piece to Robert Bramkamp's feature ART GIRLS.

In THE PHOTOGRAPHER IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA, Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel accompany the still very active 90-year old photographer Erich Lessing.

A rhythmic, subjective short documentary by Maren-Kea Freese about life in a West Berlin boho studio apartment in the 1980's.

A look back at body modifications in the early 2000s.