# 1963-68 Early Interviews Lutz Mommartz

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 curiosity I enter a movie theater, but then very carefully. Sometimes I'm even excited, but then I do not have an explanation. WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ABOUT THE "JUNGE DEUTSCHE FILM"? They are old-young, they did not understand anything. HOW DID YOU STARTED? I never wanted to become a filmmaker. In 1963 I was six weeks Uganda. As an 8-mm camera was around and because it is incredibly boring in Africa, filming could not be so bad. I recorded everything that is not typical for Africa. This has satisfied me deeply. For example I filmed a tablecloth hanging in the wind, long and full frame. For a few moments the wonderful landscape could be seen behind it - in color. This material unfortunately got lost. So I will give up filming only when I will have had recorded such a beautiful setting again. DID YOU MADE MORE 8MM FILMS? Yes, with friends and acquaintances as a game about behavioral control - without film ambitions. Besides, I thought about the possibility to construct a film by stringing together chosen example situations from the visible reality in the camera without post production. This process required that each sequence becomes incorporated memory. The selection of each image was based on my personal notions of plausibility. The more pictures were in the box, the more the film pointed to something. After a relatively…

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1968
- By: Lutz Mommartz
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/196368ErsteInterwievs)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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