Helmut Herbst Movies

A cloud of black dust, one of white dust, and the world.

A film drawn and dubbed by children in a 6th grade class, animated by Franz Winzentsen.

Figures in a side-scrolling landscape.

A “film-noir” on double identity and role reversal. A man is looking for a woman to love. He finds her in a seedy bar and persuades her...

A day in a young slacker's life in Hamburg, Germany.

Astronaut Mulligan sets out to find a mysterious planet.

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...

Hollywood opening credits with crashing sea waves and expectant orchestral music opens the film. Then the viewer's gaze is carried through a room. In...

Reel 27 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

An essayistic documentary about the action art movement that emerged in the 1960s: In interviews with various action artists, including Wolf Vostell,...

A short film by Franz Winzentsen

A man-made catastrophe depopulates entire regions. How do survivors observe this event, and how do others react?

The grotesque portrayal of an attempt at communication, graphically and rigorously depicted: In the LCB's second production, Peter Rühmkorf and...

An animated film made from collages. With a film text by poet and left-wing essayist Peter Rühmkorf. A satire on advertising language.

Short stop motion animation by Franz Winzentsen.

The film makes fun of the superficial changes in power in their birthplaces. Herbst's painting depicts a society of excited string toys who first...

This documentary concerns the contributions of German artists to the Dadaist movement. Created in 1916, the organizers rejected previous convention...

In the first half of the 19th century there was a revolt in the central state of Hesse, led by Georg Büchner (Gregor Hansen), the well-known...

Drawn portraits of a man with a beard.