Michael Brynntrup Movies

(Visuals for a live performance of the band Maria Kron aka Maria Lux)

"blind spot: term for a currently not reachable or visible space."

My first video take, - a film, that rhymes between the lines.

Michael Brynntrup takes the biblical prohibition of images literally...

A film in the form of a riddle is a special kind of entertainment film whereby the film's content must be deduced from the film's formal structure. ...

Michael Brynntrup’s first 8mm feature: an autobiographical travel diary made in Italy (1981) in which the young filmmaker films his own journey...

I am now going to experience a possible birth, - the procedure of which can obviously vary.

A Collage of TV- and moviefootage from september 1981

The city, the traffic jam, and the trashcan, - a post-painterly music clip.

Cinema not as the uterus for dreaming but as a test of patience.

"Deathbirds: birds, e.g. raven, dove as animals of the soul (see soul)"

"Gravediggers: species of beetles, black, live off cadavers of small animals, which they roll into balls."

Rests and tests from the inquiry into prototypes. Formal proofs through pregnant experiments on one's own body.

This film is based upon true occurrences. Any resemblance to individuals, dead or alive, is not only intentional, but unavoidable. - Excerpts from my...

Totenkopf (The Skull), highest elevation of the 'Kaiserstuhl' (557m). - Kaiserstuhl, upper Rhineland mountains with terminal moraine (30m high). -...

Diary film: Every person has their own taboos.

Fruits and classical music and punks.

Applause: the echo of a platitude. (Ambrose Bierce)

An educational training film.

A catalogue of psychodramatic rituals, a series of theme and variations Bach might have named The Art of the Skull. Photographed entirely in super-8,...