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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

Short film by Helmut Herbst.

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...

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

Short stop motion animation by Franz Winzentsen.

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,...

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

A documentary which looks at Heartfield primarily as a political activist working in a specific historical context. It demonstrates this relationship...

Figures in a side-scrolling landscape.

Astronaut Mulligan sets out to find a mysterious planet.