Michael Brynntrup

The German filmmaker and video artist is known for his experimental films and video installations as well as for projects in the field of electrography, digital art and net art projects. In his works he often deals with freedom and limits, as well as our reality dominated by media. Brynntrup teaches as a professor of film/video at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts. The Museum of Modern Art New York has already dedicated several film exhibitions to him.
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  • Herzsofort.Setzung II (autogene Manipulationen)

    Herzsofort.Setzung II (autogene Manipulationen)

    1996

    7min

    16+

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

  • AIDE MÉMOIRE - ein schwules Gedächtnisprotokoll

    AIDE MÉMOIRE - ein schwules Gedächtnisprotokoll

    1996

    16min

    16+

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

  • E.K.G. Expositus (the public and the artistic media)

    E.K.G. Expositus (the public and the artistic media)

    2004

    1h.41min

    16+

    A hospital in Berlin-Neukölln at midnight. A patient is being admitted. TV journalists are on the scene. The beginning of a story that tells itself.

  • Loverfilm

    Loverfilm

    1997

    22min

    16+

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

  • Face It! (Cast Your Self™)

    Face It! (Cast Your Self™)

    2007

    4min

    16+

    A short film by Berlin-based film icon Michael Brynntrup full of photographs collected from personal profiles in gay chat rooms on the internet.

  • Unpublished! - A Bonus Track

    Unpublished! - A Bonus Track

    2006

    3min

    16+

    UNPUBLISHED!- A BONUS TRACK is a bonus interview from the Michael Brynntrup film THE OVO, which appeared on the special edition DVD 'Berlinale Rolle 2', ...

  • The Ovo (Ovo - the Video)

    The Ovo (Ovo - the Video)

    2005

    17min

    16+

    THE OVO (OVO - THE VIDEO) is a short film by Berlin film artist and icon Michael Brynntrup. "It's not about how a drag queen moves, it's about what she ...

  • Blue Box Blues (Staging a Photo Shoot)

    Blue Box Blues (Staging a Photo Shoot)

    2004

    8min

    16+

    "An outstanding piece by Michael Brynntrup that captures the violence and tenderness, alongside the dominance and submission, that is found in a single, ...

  • Ipanema lip-synch

    Ipanema lip-synch

    2003

    3min

    16+

    IPANEMA LIP SYNC is a queer karaoke video short from Berlin filmmaking icon Michael Brynntrup.

  • Achtung - Respect (concentration chair)

    Achtung - Respect (concentration chair)

    2002

    13min

    16+

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

  • Gender Agenda

    Gender Agenda

    1999

    1h.16min

    16+

    GENDER AGENDA is a compilation of eight queer short films by Berlin experimental filmmaking icon Michael Brynntrup.

  • NY 'NY 'n why not

    NY 'NY 'n why not

    1999

    4min

    16+

    WALK / DON'T WALK / WALK. The rhythm of the nineties. A musical stroll along Christopher Street.

  • All You Can Eat

    All You Can Eat

    1993

    5min

    16+

    This short film "takes the ‘cum-shot’ to new heights with a montage of some of the wildest, orgasmic, facial expressions." (Boys On Film #6)

  • Homo Erectus

    Homo Erectus

    1989

    1h.16min

    16+

    An amusing journey through the Berlin Drag-Queen scene of the 80s in five short films by Michael Brynntrup.

  • Narcissus and Echo

    Narcissus and Echo

    1989

    14min

    16+

    Long seemed invalid the Prophet's word, / But honored it was, by the outcome at last: / How odd the madness, how strange a death! (Ovid, Metamorphoses) NARCISSUS ...