German cinema (Lutz Mommartz)

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Internet Archive 1968 Weg zum Nachbarn (Way to the Neighbour) 1968 · Feature With Renate Meves and Gerd Hübinger. A woman looks during lovemaking to the viewer. "Way to the neighbor" is a ten-minute opus that Lutz Mommartz commented as… Internet Archive 1975 Flügelschlagen (wing flapping) 1975 · Feature · Subtitles With Margret Gloddek and Ingrid Lutz Der author and his partners. Multiple relationship as a way of life. The entire trilogy: 1976 Flügelschlagen (Wing… Internet Archive 1996 El Periodo Especial (Cuba 1993, Fidel Castro) 1996 · Feature · Subtitles Fidel Castro As on a journey to Cuba by a speech from Fidel Castro before his Parliament that was transmitted in television a film was made. (original epic… Internet Archive 1967 Der Finger (The Finger) 1967 · Feature With Günther Uecker and Brigitte Stöckhert Male finger between two female fingers. Addicional eroctic giggling. In "The Finger" we see a male finger moving… Internet Archive 1983 Transit nach Berlin (Transit to Berlin) 1983 · Feature · Subtitles A short music video with the music of the band Mama Woju with the singer Markus Flaschenträger. The idea of the song and the video is a take off on the… Internet Archive 1967 Oben / Unten (Up / Down) 1967 · Feature With the Rockband "The Iceni" and NN Five men in white clothing floating against a black background. And in the split screen above the torso of a man. Below… Internet Archive 1971 Der Schöne Sigmar (The beautiful Sigmar) 1970 · Feature New Year party with Sigmar Polke at the department of the Kohlhöfers in Düsseldorf / Germany. Internet Archive 1969 Soziale Plastik (Social Sculpture) 1969 · Feature · Subtitles With Joseph Beuys. Joseph Beuys accepts the challenge to expose himself to the anonymous audience. "Social Sculpture" was filmed in 1969 subsequently after… Internet Archive 1978 Mehr als zwei (More than Two) 1978 · Feature · Subtitles With Margret Gloddek and Ingrid Lutz With three in Greece. Multiple relationship as a way of life. The entire trilogy: 1976 Flügelschlagen (Wing flapping)… Internet Archive 1977 Der Garten Eden (the garden Eden) 1977 · Feature Bundesfilmpreis: Filmband in Silber Camera: Dieter Fietzke and Lutz Mommartz, Sound: Herbert Baumann, Important help: Ingrid Lutz, Henning Brandis, Franz van… Internet Archive 1992 Die Tänzerin (The Dancer) 1992 · Feature · Subtitles A few frames of a wind turbine are mounted in many changing variations so that the movement recoils right before completion. (Lutz Mommartz) Internet Archive 1967 Eisenbahn (Railway) 1967 · Feature · Subtitles Finally and infinitely brought to the point. (L.M.) The spectator hears that the train is coasting, but he sees that the train goes nowhere, a common view is… Internet Archive 1989 Essen 223 (Community film) 1989 · Feature Filmklasse Münster, Community film Each participant received a local transport week-ticket for the cinematic exploration of the Ruhr Area / Germany with the… Internet Archive 1975 Mambo 1975 · Feature · Subtitles First Community film after establishing the film class at the Art Academy Münster / Germany. with Wolfgang Braden, Bernd Rickfelder, Harald Balke, Herbert… Internet Archive 2017 Tax Declaration Lutz Mommartz 2017 · Feature · Subtitles Dear people, I am working on a cinematic image: 'The Transparent Man'. He lives in the 22nd century and controls his tax declaration according to the new… Internet Archive 1976 Im Glashaus der Illusionen (inside the glasshouse of the illusions) 1976 · Feature 1976 Im Glashaus der Illusionen 36,22’ Filmklasse Münster GCommunity film with Herbert Baumann, Wolfgang Braden, Dieter Fietzke, Rainer Klaholz, Uli Meyer,… Internet Archive 1975 Der Gerechte Krieg 1525 (the fair war 1525) 1975 · Feature · Subtitles Special two projector synchronization. A summary of the farmer's war in Germany. Filmgruppe Düsseldorf Doppelprojektion Naht an Naht nebeneinander -… Internet Archive 1996 Fenster zum Hof (window to the yard) 1996 · Feature · Subtitles Digitized video painting: April weather in the back yard: roofs, balconies, windows. View from a balcony window with excerpts from buildings in rhythmic… Internet Archive 1980 Tango durch Deutschland (tango through Germany) 1980 · Feature Production Manager: Ulli Kratzsch Eddie Constantine obtaines by the Tribunal the opportunity to lead a better live, with that not only he but the whole film… Internet Archive 1967 Tanzschleife (Danceloop) 1967 · Feature In the lower half of the screen the legs of a dancing girl can be seen, in the upper half of the screen we have perforated movie - in a butterfly way.… Internet Archive 1970 Farbstreifen / Bedienungsanleitung (Manual) 1970 · Feature · Subtitles Marker on blank Film Material Internet Archive 1996 Fenster Zum Hof (Window to the yard) 1996 · Feature · Subtitles View from a balcony window with details from buildingparts in a rhythmic blending technology of a Canon Hi 8 camera. Tribute to Siegfried Kracauer. (Lutz… Internet Archive 1970 Das Atem des Schafes und Das Meer ist unendlich schön (the breath of the sheep and the see is endless beautiful) 1970 · Feature · Subtitles The sea is infinitely beautiful Description of a film installation with 5 projectors on 3 walls. The breath of the sheep 9,35’ N8 mm Tour trough Scotland with… Internet Archive 1985 Anziehen (To dress) 1985 · Feature Image rotation produced by a black diaphragm circling in the compendium. Internet Archive 1963-68 Early Interviews Lutz Mommartz 1968 · Feature MR. MOMMARTZ, PLEAS DESCRIBE YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO CINEMA? I rarely go to the cinema. I do not like Western, nor problem movies or comedies. Sometimes, out of… Internet Archive 1983 Jeder Mensch ist ein Tisch, nur, ich bin ein Stuhl (Every Human is a Table, only I am a chair) 1983 · Feature With Berni Woschek, Boris Jacobi, Michael, Angelika, Jimmy Cording, Tony Morgan, Cecile Bauer, Wolf Dosch, Anna Plakinger, Thomas Heinser and Hans Illner The… Internet Archive 1992 Fensterbild (Window Picture) 1992 · Feature · Subtitles Rügen / Germany: A far sea horizon. Swifts, clattering dishes, steps to the waitress and quiet conversations in the cafe. 60 minutes real time. Internet Archive 1997 Der Mann der Hitler Verbrannte (The Man who burned the body of Hitler) 1997 · Feature WIth Dirk Vollenbroich, Stefan Silies, Anja Kreysing, Bernhard Kappelhoff and Till Nachtamann Peculiar portrait of former secret service man under Canaris.… Internet Archive 1987 Fokus (Focus) 1986 · Feature The film is a simulation of the alternating blinking of the eye by moving the lens of the camera from the right to the left and back. Internet Archive 1967 Die Treppe (The Stairs) 1967 · Feature The author uses the camera as the eye, moves so one-handed through home and welcomes after peeing with his free hand, people at a party. I've seen "The… Internet Archive 1971 Das Aggressive Braune Wasser in den Leitungent des Professors (the aggressive brown water in the tubes of the Professor) 1971 · Feature Featuring Jurgen Kuhfuss Meiterinnen and Andreas Dahmen vom Mieterverein. An attempt by the film maker himself to make himself useful in the tenant solidarity… Internet Archive 2018 La Belle Histoire D'amour 2018 · Feature "Seit den 1960er Jahren hat Lutz Mommartz (*1934) den deutschen Experimentalfilm mitgeprägt. Mommartz begann als Autodidakt, wurde mit seinen Filmen… Internet Archive 1967 3 Gläser (3 glases) 1967 · Feature With Jörn Janssen, Ulrich Wiethoff and Norbert Stratmann in a conference without words. 3 men meet wordlessly and start turning their fingers at the edges of… Internet Archive 2017 DEPHTINESS (engl. subtitels) 2016 · Feature · Subtitles Depthiness is the newest film from Lutz Mommartz. Hans Rombach spells with Andres Veiel for Lutz Mommartz Internet Archive 1974 Haircut 1974 · Feature With Tony Morgan and his fools It was the time when the hair was becoming shorter and the skirts became longer again.(LUTZ MOMMARTZ) Internet Archive 1988 Vier kleine Stücke (Four little Pieces) 1988 · Feature 1. As an unsuspecting wanderer between Maikammer and Hambach / Germany makes history. 2. Reassurance 3. Aborigines 4. Moons Lutz Mommartz' films focus… Internet Archive 2017 Steuererklaerung Lutz Mommartz 2017 · Feature Liebe Leute, ich arbeite an einem filmischen Bild: ‚Der durchsichtige Mensch’. Der lebt im 22. Jahrhundert und kontrolliert seine Steuererklärung nach dem… Internet Archive 2003 Ohne Titel (without title) Barcelona 2003 · Feature · Subtitles View from hotel window on the nocturnal Rambla in Barcelona. An attractive middle-aged woman floats like a butterfly begging passers that pase by for… Internet Archive 1979 Schattenkur (Cure for Darkness) 1979 · Feature With Margret Gloddek and Ingrid Lutz Holiday with three at Lanzarote. Multiple relationship as a way of life. The entire trilogy: 1976 Flügelschlagen (Wing… Internet Archive 2012 Kleine Stücke (little pieces) 2012 · Feature · Subtitles An artificial look at the faces of grass pavers. The walk over the grass pavers -as a score to the music of J.S. Bach- ends with a laconic pan shot on the… Internet Archive 1998 Jugendweihe 98 (Youth Consecration) 1998 · Feature The Youth initiation ceremony (Jugendweihe) is an East German phenomenon. It was adopted in 1954 in the former GDR as an obligatory pledge to socialism,… Internet Archive 1998 Cafe Buckow 1998 · Feature Cafe Buckow: Exhibition of the first works of art students frm the Art Academy Münster ( Germany for one week. Blues with digital picture distortions. My last… Internet Archive 2011 Nichts (Nothing) 2011 · Feature · Subtitles Lutz Mommartz looks intently with nothing on the nothing -as long as possible- in the camera. In September 2011, on his balcony. Internet Archive 2010 Schwarz/Weiss 2010 · Feature · Subtitles "Black / White" begins with a series of 200 frames flickering in a 25tel seconds rhythm, alternately black and white, before it slows down continuously to a… Internet Archive 1967 Selbstschüsse (Self Shots) 1967 · Feature I threw the camera in the air and in this way I was able to express my aversion to conventional film show and skip my own limits. (LUTZ MOMMARTZ) "Selfshots"… Internet Archive 1980 Tango durch Deutschland (Trailer) 1980 · Feature Tango Through Germany: Eddie Constantine is given the chance to lead a new and better life but he fails. Musik: Astor Piazzolla / Kamera: Lutz Mommartz,… Internet Archive 1970 Altersporno (No Subtitel) 1970 · Feature Mit Ludwig Chateau Frage an einen älteren düsseldorfer Bildhauer, ob er bereit sei, in einen Altersporno mitzuwirken. The subtitled version can be found here:… Internet Archive 1971 Inspektion (Inspection) 1971 · Feature With Reinhold Ohngemach, Peter Franke, the Conrads‘ and Jürgen Kuhfuß. Two actors have a conversation about surplus and unemployment using the DKP catechism…