Klaus Wyborny Movies

This is the first of five parts of Klaus Wyborny's "Lieder der Erde" / "Song of the Earth" cycle of films, whose theme is "the emergence of modern...

A German TV movie

"At a time which is not ours, this film was found on a heap of scrap metal, close to Nanterre. It tells of the desparate attempt of a group of people...

"Wyborny trained as a mathematician, worked as a cameraman on Werner Herzog's Kasper Hauser. He first attracted the attention of the New York and...

A silent film

Third part of a cycle of five films titled SONGS OF THE EARTH, whose theme is the emergence of European civilization.

30 minutes of images with music by Anthony Moore

A man-made catastrophe depopulates entire regions. How do survivors observe this event, and how do others react?

Klaus Wyborny’s STUDIEN ZUM UNTERGANG DES ABENDLANDS had its premiere at the Viennale in 2010, where it got rave reviews. Afterwards it was...

2084 – mankind is about to go for the stars. Humans with XY-chromosomes live in individual cells having no contact with each other. They are...

A dozen narrative poems by Durs Grünbein, interpreted in sounds and images. Wyborny treats the texts as sounding boards for his own casual...

A silent film

I began to develop a high level of mistrust of the so-called logical structures, which is why I turned my back on mathematics and turned to film.

A humorous and ironic film that draws attention to the problems of long-distance tourism and European arrogance: A German travels through Africa...

“Should one turn to high culture, dive into the armed underground, or rather enjoy life?” A perplexing dilemma between art, war, and sex,...

Part 1 of "3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein" (for Laurence Rickels)

Film footage from The Birth of a Nation, Die Abenteuer des Mister West im Lande der Bolschewiki, The Docks of New York, Tabu, Morocco, Citizen Kane,...

The film begins with a visualization of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111, and Wyborny nearly misses the first movement. Yes, the...

The story of a group that has a difficult time near Bialystok at dawn on July 19, 1944.