Christian Grundey
Directing
Biography
Christian Grundey is a filmmaker from Hamburg. He develops, produces, and directs his own films. His desire to participate in as many independent projects in Hamburg as possible has resulted in a high degree of versatility in his work. Not only has he been responsible for editing, sound, and camera work on many projects, but he has also written the screenplay, handled production, and much more for many of his projects. His filmography includes the films “Die Flunder – Ein Superheld für Hamburg”, “Beerboy und der Lauf um den See”, “Der Witzekongress”, “Im Park scheint die Sonne und es ist schön” and “In Aspik” (In Aspic), as well as lots of short films and numerous music videos. He also runs the film podcast “Filme zum Dessert”.
Known For
What was cinema in the past? What is cinema today? Hamburg filmmaker Dennis Albrecht asked himself these questions as he sifted through material he had been collecting since a project idea in 2008. Since then, he has repeatedly taken cameras into cinemas that no longer exist. He shot commercials, short films or events at the Grindel-Kino, Streit's, Rialto and Savoy and many other Hamburg movie theaters. In these personal perspectives, we see many cultural places that have disappeared.
Kinokinokino
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Violent Starr: Lost Media
Leon is in his mid-twenties and terminally ill. He invents a technology that allows him to computerize his mind and live forever. This technology will be the downfall of mankind, so freedom fighter Aqua travels back from the future to kill him. The two fall in love and turbulent events follow.
Leon Must Die
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Beerboy und der Lauf um den See
A delightful dark comedy about a group of girls who accidentally kill someone. Seven young female criminals, led by an over-enthusiastic social worker, work off community service hours by collecting garbage in a haunted forest when they accidentally kill someone. Flashbacks tell their backstories in a mix of folk-horror and teen comedy.
Bearkittens
A look into the lives of a dysfunctional family after the father dies.
Cordelia's Children
After 20 years the electronic band Naomi Sample & the Go Go Ghosts is on a search for a new image. This causes an conflict which ends in a full chaos.
In Aspik
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Birthright
Lower Saxony's most hardcore punk band faces off against the forces of evil summoned by their town's elites.
Zeckenkommando vs. Cthulhu
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Die Flunder
After Juliane's boyfriend ends their long-term relationship, she embarks on an almost restless search for something new to fill the void, while her best friend Tom has his eye on her. The sun is shining in the park and it's beautiful. The film deals with expectations of relationships and the attitude towards life of modern people in the big city.
Im Park scheint die Sonne und es ist schön
Every year a group of humorists get together to tell each other the best jokes of the year and to complain about their existence as freelance joke tellers. But this year is something different. The troupe is not only celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary, guests are also supposed to broaden the humorous horizon. And for the first time there is also a woman who messes up the staid men's evening. The bizarre congress takes its course.
Der Witzekongress
Natalia, a young Chilean woman, comes to Europe for the first time searching for her family history. She starts a road trip through Poland together with her school friend Morín, who moved to Hamburg three years ago trying to develop her career as an actress. Between encounters and borders, not only her expectations about Europe will be challenged, but also her old friendship with Morín.
The Last to Leave Are the Cranes
A giant kraken has been spotted in the middle of Wilhelmsburg. Two fearless protagonists follow the trail...
Kraken
A wannabe actress hooks herself up with a weird theater troupe.
Performaniax
Hartz IV with consequences.
Hartz IV mit Folgen
The definition of time can be interpreted in many different ways. What means “immediately” to many people can be a very flexible concept for an individual.
Precinct 17
When strange things start to happen, a long journey into the unknown follows. In the end, we all eat what we are fed.
Grainz
Three roommates on lock-down over Christmas. With the big date approaching, everything gets more and more mythological. Will all of them make it out alive? Surreal Christmas comedy, inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Covid Metamorphosen
An interview about an alien abduction experience.