Michael Brynntrup Movies

The city, the traffic jam, and the trashcan, - a post-painterly music clip.

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

Cinema not as the uterus for dreaming but as a test of patience.

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

The joint high mess of 80s German underground: An exercise in exquisite corps (and in some cases probably also automatic writing) for which artists...

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,...

"Do you really think I give you a chance at me?" - Practice Film for ZDF.

An educational training film.

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

Homosexuality is inherited, and comes from the stress caused by metabolic disturbances in the mother's body. (Hormone Scientist Prof. Günther...

The desolate stretch of land on an overgrown graveyard: on June 17th, 1983 a main character crosses the dead no-man's land, - an incident. Ten years...

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

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...

As said. (Super8)

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

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

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

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

Michael Brynntrup’s first 8mm feature: an autobiographical travel diary made in Italy (1981) in which the young filmmaker films his own journey...

"Death mask: facial imprint of the deceased in soft plaster or wax."