Lutz Dammbeck Movies

  • 2016
    Overgames

    Overgames

    Overgames

    6.92016HD

    On a talkshow, actor and German TV ikon Joachim Fuchsberger recalls how the games for his show "Nur nicht nervös werden" (Don't Get Nervous),...

    Overgames
  • 2003
    The Net

    The Net

    The Net

    62003HD

    More of a film essay - of the type pioneered by Orson Welles and Chris Marker - than a standard documentary, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck's The...

    The Net
  • 1992
    Time of the Gods

    Time of the Gods

    Time of the Gods

    51992HD

    The film explores what transformations in power and politics do to art, how much opportunism can be found in “pure” art and whether...

    Time of the Gods
  • 1998
    The Master Game

    The Master Game

    The Master Game

    6.31998HD

    At the Vienna Art Academy in 1994, an unidentified person painted over 27 works by Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer. Rainer had become world-famous for...

    The Master Game
  • 1993
    Duke Ernest

    Duke Ernest

    Duke Ernest

    61993HD

    Young Duke Ernest wants to become a good knight. The circumstances are not in his favour: The emperor wants to claim the Duke's castle and marry his...

    Duke Ernest
  • 1981
    Einmart

    Einmart

    Einmart

    71981HD

    The very first images in the film set unprecedented standards in East German animated film: a Buñuelean eye that fills the entire screen,...

    Einmart
  • 1996
    Duerers Heritage

    Duerers Heritage

    Duerers Heritage

    01996HD

    Dammbeck, himself an alumnus of the Leipzig Academy for Graphic and Book Design, presents the origins of the new German realism developed by the...

    Duerers Heritage
  • 2004
    Das Netz_GO TO TRIAL

    Das Netz_GO TO TRIAL

    Das Netz_GO TO TRIAL

    02004HD

    Das Netz_GO TO TRIAL
  • 1978
    Metamorphoses I

    Metamorphoses I

    Metamorphoses I

    01978HD

    For the multimedia exhibition Tangenten I (Tangents I), Dammbeck and co-organizer, sculptor and painter Frieder Heinze had planned to collaborate on...

    Metamorphoses I
  • 2018
    Bruno & Bettina

    Bruno & Bettina

    Bruno & Bettina

    02018HD

    Masao Adachi, the author and director of experimental works and pinku-eiga in the 1960s, was a member of the Japanese New Left that shifted from...

    Bruno & Bettina
  • 1982
    The Discovery

    The Discovery

    The Discovery

    5.21982HD

    A little bumblebee is tired of her daily routine and the other boring bumblebees. She flies to the place of her dreams and meets a frog who is also...

    The Discovery
  • 1988
    The Painter Came From a Foreign Land

    The Painter Came From a Foreign Land

    The Painter Came From a Foreign Land

    01988HD

    In this film, Dammbeck explores his own decision to relocate to Hamburg, West Germany, and tries to sort out his past as an artist. In the process,...

    The Painter Came From a Foreign Land
  • 1979
    The Tailor of Ulm

    The Tailor of Ulm

    The Tailor of Ulm

    51979HD

    Dammbeck made this film – a reference to the myth of Icarus and a metaphor for failure, hope, and human exploration – at the invitation...

    The Tailor of Ulm
  • 2008
    First Leipzig Autumn Salon

    First Leipzig Autumn Salon

    First Leipzig Autumn Salon

    02008HD

    In 1984, the “First Leipzig Autumn Salon” took place – a risk and a caesura for Dammbeck. Bypassing every state institution, six...

    First Leipzig Autumn Salon
  • 2002
    From Stag Beetle to Swastika

    From Stag Beetle to Swastika

    From Stag Beetle to Swastika

    02002HD

    From Stag Beetle to Swastika narrates in a richly detailed, associative montage the boundless possibilities of manipulating images and using images...

    From Stag Beetle to Swastika
  • 2008
    REALFilm

    REALFilm

    REALFilm

    02008HD

    "This multimedia collage, which includes performances by pantomime artist and dancer Fine Kwiatkowski, painter and filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck and...

    REALFilm
  • 1970
    A kid's animation special - DEFA children's animation film without words

    A kid's animation special - DEFA children's animation film without words

    A kid's animation special - DEFA children's animation film without words

    01970HD

    THis program for young viewers includes eight short films produced with different animation techniques by the DEFA Studio for Animaion Film in...

    A kid's animation special - DEFA children's animation film without words
  • 1986
    The Flood

    The Flood

    The Flood

    01986HD

    Two men sit on an island watching the sunset. When a storm gathers, they decide to build a boat. While one man is mindful of the coming danger and...

    The Flood
  • 1975
    The Moon

    The Moon

    The Moon

    01975HD

    The moon swirls happily around, watching strange animals enjoying themselves and dancing to gramophone music in its light. Then, suddenly, the moon...

    The Moon
  • 1978
    Live!

    Live!

    Live!

    01978HD

    This short film traces the story of a man from birth to old age. The magical dreams of his youth appear from time to time, but daily routine quickly...

    Live!