Michael Brynntrup Movies

Fruits and classical music and punks.

This film is based upon true occurrences. Any resemblance to individuals, dead or alive, is not only intentional, but unavoidable. - Excerpts from my...

Life is a deadly illness, which is carried over by sexual contacts. (Graffitti on a public toilet, 1990) - A historically-current anti-aids clip.

Totenkopf (The Skull), highest elevation of the 'Kaiserstuhl' (557m). - Kaiserstuhl, upper Rhineland mountains with terminal moraine (30m high). -...

The original is in motion. The identity is being denied. On the very first take I wanted to pose naked in front of the camera. But I guess I didn't...

Intermezzo: 1. A brief entr'acte. 2a. A short movement separating the major sections of a symphonic work. 2b. An independent instrumental composition...

A catalogue of psychodramatic rituals, a series of theme and variations Bach might have named The Art of the Skull. Photographed entirely in super-8,...

WALK / DON'T WALK / WALK. The rhythm of the nineties. A tribute to the vital New York drag scene and the "electronic" 90's that is also a remembrance...

My first video take, - a film, that rhymes between the lines.

For better or for worse... Provisions, while things are still working. (first TV commercial for a german undertaker)

Women piss too - only less.

About which one cannot speak, one must make films. (loosely based on Ludwig Wittgenstein)

As said. (Super8)

(Visuals for a live performance of the band Maria Kron aka Maria Lux)

I am now going to experience a possible birth, - the procedure of which can obviously vary.

As said. - bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravissimo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo,...

Rests and tests from the inquiry into prototypes. Formal proofs through pregnant experiments on one's own body.

My apartment has a nice lay-out. There are a lot of paintings on the walls. I have a big carpet, too.

The last remains of the deathstrip.

Captures the violence and tenderness, alongside the dominance and submission, that is found in a single, intimate embrace.