Lutz Dammbeck

At the interface between the fine arts and film, Lutz Dammbeck is working on a constantly evolving Gesamtkunstwerk, the "Heracles Concept". In the films belonging to this concept, he links new myths, role models and mission statements with findings from cybernetics, systems theory, behavioral research and sociology. His experimental and documentary films are such artistic, interdisciplinary mind maps, strictly composed but associative in their effect. This tightrope walk - standing on firm theoretical ground and yet dispensing with any kind of lesson - makes Dammbeck one of the most important international artists.
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  • Bruno & Bettina

    Bruno & Bettina

    2018

    1h.41min

    16+

    Masao Adachi, born in 1939, is a well-known Japanese scriptwriter and director who in 1974 joined the ‘Japanese Red Army’.


  • Overgames

    Overgames

    2015

    2h.44min

    16+

    A film about funny and serious games, therapies of re- and self-re-education as well as the history of ideas of the permanent revolution.


  • The Netz: SEEK II

    The Netz: SEEK II

    2009

    29min

    16+

    While researching for the film Das Netz, Lutz Dammbeck came across the exhibition "Software. Information technology: its new meaning for art".


  • The Net_A Visit to 'Hakim Bey'

    The Net_A Visit to 'Hakim Bey'

    2004

    35min

    16+

    Lutz Dammbeck talks with Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) about T.A.Z., Ted Kaczynski, Islam, Marvin Minsky, Cusanus and natural philosophy.


  • The Net_GO TO TRIAL

    The Net_GO TO TRIAL

    2004

    35min

    16+

    A montage of TV images of the trial of Ted Kaczynski, better known as the "Unabomber."


  • The Net

    The Net

    2003

    2h.1min

    16+

    What is the connection between computer technology, hippie culture, mathematics, terrorism, the research of consciousness in the 1950s and paranoia?


  • Master Game

    Master Game

    1998

    1h.46min

    16+

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


  • Duerer’s Heirs

    Duerer’s Heirs

    1996

    58min

    16+

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


  • Duke Ernest

    Duke Ernest

    1993

    43min

    16+

    The great adventure of little Duke Ernest.


  • Age of the Gods

    Age of the Gods

    1992

    1h.32min

    16+

    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 Cave of Hercules

    The Cave of Hercules

    1990

    44min

    16+

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


  • The painter of the strange country …

    The painter of the strange country …

    1988

    42min

    16+

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


  • GDR Experimental: REALFilm

    GDR Experimental: REALFilm

    1986

    47min

    16+

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


  • GDR Experimental: First Leipzig Autumn Salon

    GDR Experimental: First Leipzig Autumn Salon

    1984

    22min

    16+

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


  • GDR Experimental: Heracles

    GDR Experimental: Heracles

    1984

    10min

    16+

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


  • GDR Experimental: Homage to La Sarraz

    GDR Experimental: Homage to La Sarraz

    1981

    12min

    16+

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


  • GDR Experimental: Metamorphosis 1

    GDR Experimental: Metamorphosis 1

    1978

    6min

    16+

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