Frieder Butzmann

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An experimental film based on an 18-minute version of Béla Bartók's composition of the same name. Bartók's one-act opera is about a young woman who is forced by three crooks to lure men into an ambush, where they are then robbed.

Berlin Super 80 is a compilation of 18 short movies shot in Super 8 by West German experimental film makers during the late 1970s/early 80s. Featuring music by Malaria, Reflections, Einstürzende Neubauten, Frieder Butzmann and Die Tödliche Doris. It’s a hit or miss affair with films that range from the brilliant to the banal. Well worth watching for the flashes of genius.

Klaus Beyer turned 70 and celebrated with an open-air concert in the Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin. Georg Maas, Matl Findel, Sabine Herpich and Stephan Kruhl filmed and Frank Behnke edited the first Beyer live concert film. He not only performed his hits, but also received musical gifts from his friends.

In her work, Monika Funke Stern operates at the intersection between experimental film and video art. She relies both on a variety of filmic techniques and effects and a powerful dramaturgy of filmic devices. She develops her own visual signature and a great interest in her subjects, which often play with elements of science fiction to develop a critical take on reality. In her comical Zum Glück gibt’s kein Patent she portrays Norma DIN working at the patent office, played by Hella von Sinnen. Norma’s ordinary life and workaday world is shaped by the endless meaninglessness of the neutral abstraction of inventions. The story reaches a climax when Norma is presented with a robot that is intended to replace employees like herself one day. Norma can apply a whole series of bureaucratic policy provisions and classify the robot as not worthy of a patent.

"L'art pour l'art" is a principle that also applies to short films. It remains to be seen what interpretation of meaning would be appropriate for the film, as its design in terms of images and editing, color and sound conveys appealing aspects, evokes associations and, moreover—once again in a tradition of deep meaning—takes up the doppelganger motif.

1979 German super 8 short work