Helmut Herbst Movies

A “film-noir” on double identity and role reversal. A man is looking for a woman to love. He finds her in a seedy bar and persuades her...

A day in a young slacker's life in Hamburg, Germany.

Reel 27 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

This documentary concerns the contributions of German artists to the Dadaist movement. Created in 1916, the organizers rejected previous convention...

In the 1970s, music critics and military personnel meet in a recording studio at NATO's European Command to discuss a final music program for Central...

In conversations with his friends and colleagues, among them Bernd Upnmoor, Helmut Herbst, Alexander Kluge, Klaus Wyborny, Daniel Kothenschulte and...

A paean to alcohol as a means of survival to this world, and to the ephemeral communities created by our need not to be alone. On Christmas Eve,...

Austria/Hungary in 1905: At the annual fairs, the old cabinets displaying "abnormalities" and "living phenomena" are being replaced by cinematograph...

The grotesque portrayal of an attempt at communication, graphically and rigorously depicted: In the LCB's second production, Peter Rühmkorf and...

An essayistic documentary about the action art movement that emerged in the 1960s: In interviews with various action artists, including Wolf Vostell,...

A cloud of black dust, one of white dust, and the world.

Short stop motion animation by Franz Winzentsen.

Astronaut Mulligan sets out to find a mysterious planet.

Drawn portraits of a man with a beard.

A film drawn and dubbed by children in a 6th grade class, animated by Franz Winzentsen.

Figures in a side-scrolling landscape.

The film makes fun of the superficial changes in power in their birthplaces. Herbst's painting depicts a society of excited string toys who first...

A documentary about the 'critical mass', the Film Coop, a group of young filmmakers in Hamburg during the 1960s - a small group far from the...

A short film by Franz Winzentsen