Michael Brynntrup Movies

Applause: the echo of a platitude. (Ambrose Bierce)

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

"Stillbirth: the birth of an at least 35 cm long foetus"

The title of this film isn't -as is mistakenly assumed- 'Moving Pictures for the Movement Disabled'. ... an educational training film.

The last remains of the deathstrip.

Between an overgrown West Berlin graveyard and a desolate stretch of land under communist rule, there is a supposedly dead no-man's land. - Around...

My day in the yearly film.

Diary film: Every person has their own taboos.

Immanuel Kant Hospital in Neukölln, Berlin. Midnight. A patient is being admitted. TV journalists are on the spot. The beginning of a story that...

Photographer Jürgen Baldiga (1959-1993) and filmmaker Michael Brynntrup, - privat discourses and personal investigations of how to deal with...

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

As said. (Super8)

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...

"Gravediggers: species of beetles, black, live off cadavers of small animals, which they roll into balls."

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

"blind spot: term for a currently not reachable or visible space."

"Deathbirds: birds, e.g. raven, dove as animals of the soul (see soul)"

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

Where I come from, people stay at home. Except when they go on holiday or off to war.