Helmut Herbst Movies

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

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...

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

Figures in a side-scrolling landscape.

Director Helmut Herbst’s animated sci-fi short with characters that would be more fully explored in CATHEDRAL OF NEW EMOTIONS.

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...

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

Animated feature by Helmut Herbst.

In the first half of the 19th century there was a revolt in the central state of Hesse, led by Georg Büchner (Gregor Hansen), the well-known...

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

Webern's “Opus 5” comments through three very different translations: an abstract image sequence of moving lights and shadows, an almost...

Drawn portraits of a man with a beard.

The year was 1972. A commune of Berlin stoners and intellectuals set adrift in space in a packing container clutched in a giant flying hand. Based...

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,...

Documentary by Helmut Herbst.

Documentary about the film pioneer Guido Seeber

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