Christian Bau

Detective Peter Flowers has to deal with Nola, the "most beautiful and corrupt woman in the world"...

In May 1968, no one passes him by: day and night, Peter Ernst Eiffe, who grew up in a Hanseatic family, is on the road in Hamburg with the felt-tip pen and covers toilets, traffic signs, mailboxes with his sayings. Presumably he is the first graffiti tagger in Germany. Highlight of his career: He drives a Fiat Topolino into the Wandelhalle of the main station and proclaims the "Free Republic of Eiffe". Forcibly admitted to psychiatry, he founded the party »Eiffe Brothers«. Christmas 1983 he escapes from the institution and is found frozen months later. In the 1990s, the filmmaker Christian Bau and Artur Dieckhoff began to deal with Eiffe.

The filmmaker Monika Treut documents in this very personal film her travels, which she undertook between 1999 and 2002. She attended film festivals in metropolises on all continents, from San Francisco to Jerusalem, from Rio de Janeiro to Paris and Jerusalem, where she tried to capture the social and political peculiarities of the respective country.

Five young men ride their bicycles through the city, each of them having a piece of a huge movie advertisement attached to his bike.

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 Mainstream or the New German Cinema.

The documentary accompanies the history of the district, its renovation and the struggle of the population against the urban development determined by investors. With interviews, productions and detailed observations, a complex picture of the people in Altona is painted.

Short-documentary about the squat at Amandastraße 73 in Hamburg.

Before a figure skating championship, a television announcement reminds young girls about the emancipation of women.

Documentary to prevent the closing of the Thedebad in Hamburg-Altona.

In 1922, Max Ernst produced a painting entitled “The Rendezvous of Friends”. In surrealist style, it shows his friends from Paris - including Robert Desnos, Hans Arp, Paul Éluard and André Breton - all avant-gardists. The documentary follows the painting's journey from the artist's easel to the Museum Ludwig.

With its numerous interviews, the film is an inventory of current forms of resistance. It shows the strength, but also the weakness of the momentary disputes. The story, the practice and the discussion are described in the film – an exciting affair.

The artist Jürgen Vallen in the port of Hamburg, his favorite workplace. A document of obsession: port, cranes, noises, sounds, pictures, drawings. An exciting meeting of three areas: documentary video/art/music.

After the Fukushima disaster, a new word was created in the Japanese language, in the calligraphy composed of the terms "atom" and "divorce". Christian Bau created this word in 2011 on the east coast of Japan.

On the occasion of the »Construction Days« in the autumn of 1969, the Hamburg Building Authority commissioned five HFBK film students to film one Hamburg commercial each. Christian Bau opted for a critical portrait of Osdorfer Born, Hamburg's first large-scale, prefabricated housing estate, which had been built from 1967 by Neue Heimat, SAGA and other housing companies on the western edge of the city. The images, shot on 16mm, were accompanied by interview passages and a text taken from SAGA's housing construction program. The client was less than enthusiastic, the film disappeared into a closet for decades and can now be shown for the first time in the cinema.

During an art auction, at which Gerhard Richter's “Abstraktes Bild (H.M.)” is being offered for sale, a photo of a dead man appears on the livestream. A paranormal phenomenon?

Documentary film essay that links the fate of the New York artist Jimmy Ernst and his parents Max Ernst and Louise Straus with the history of the Augustin printing house in Glückstadt.

A whimsical depiction of the Hamburg city port (life?).

A movie that shows conversations with a friend. It longs for clarity, not necessarily wisdom; he is looking for connections that give him meaning. This film gives reason to think about why young people go to the Hitler Youth in the early 1930s and find what they are looking for there.

“Should one turn to high culture, dive into the armed underground, or rather enjoy life?” A perplexing dilemma between art, war, and sex, filmed in 1969 on the stage of the auditorium at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts; the two main actresses were the university's nude models.

From the neighborhood to the suburbs. The Steffen family moves from a rental apartment in St. Pauli to their own home in Allermöhe. Farewell to the alternative scene, the billiard salon, the dance club nights, a certain idea of the city. “Some still do the same as 10 years ago, have only become 10 years older.” Site inspection. Topping-out. Where does the kitchen block go? Feng-Shui-like everything is balanced. Moving into the new house. “You have to stay supple ... Tomorrow the baseboards are coming. "