Christian Bau Movies

The attempt to deal with a magazine format. Topic: Work situations. "We had a binding structure. From the idea to completion four weeks à five...

A movie that shows conversations with a friend. It longs for clarity, not necessarily wisdom; he is looking for connections that give him meaning....

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...

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

In 1937, on behalf of Hitler, a competition was announced among the most important architects in Germany. The task was the redesign of the Hamburg...

The artist Jürgen Vallen in the port of Hamburg, his favorite workplace. A document of obsession: port, cranes, noises, sounds, pictures,...

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

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

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

The filmmaker Monika Treut documents in this very personal film her travels, which she undertook between 1999 and 2002. She attended film festivals...

Years ago, SONY advertised with the slogan “The mobile memory”. We fell for it. The memory faded. The starting situation for the film was...

“Should one turn to high culture, dive into the armed underground, or rather enjoy life?” A perplexing dilemma between art, war, and sex,...

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...

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

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...

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

In 1922, Max Ernst produced a painting entitled “The Rendezvous of Friends”. In surrealist style, it shows his friends from Paris -...

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...

On the occasion of the »Construction Days« in the autumn of 1969, the Hamburg Building Authority commissioned five HFBK film students to...

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...