Michael Brynntrup | film video etc

Film screenings and Consulting Universitas Sebelas Maret Faculty of Art and Design (FSRD) (March 20-28, 2018) [ supported by the Senior Expert Service (SES) and the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK) ]

Programm | program
Prof. Michael Brynntrup
[ 5 programs | March 20-28, 2018 ]

Michael Brynntrup is an artist and filmmaker, and has been Professor of the Film Class at the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK) for over ten years now. The regular program of study takes four to five years, and features a mixed group of both new and experienced students. After achieving an MA (Diplom), the most advanced students may stay for an additional year of Masterclass (so-called Meisterschüler). - The four film programs bring together several films by Prof. Brynntrup (from a period spanning more than thirty years). An additional program presents recent works by current students of the 'Filmklasse Braunschweig'.

20.03.18, Studium Generale
Program 1: Portrait Michael Brynntrup
[ 38 min | 1983-2016 | 6 filmvideo ]

Between an overgrown West Berlin graveyard and a desolate stretch of land under communist rule, there is a supposedly dead no-man's land. - Around noon, the main character arrives at this inevitable place.
{Information sheet of the film, 1983}

At the start of 1983, Brynntrup joined forces with almost twenty filmmakers, artists, musicians, and others active in the squatter cinema movement to form the collective OYKO. [...] On July 17, 1983 in the Hasenheide park in Kreuzberg, OYKO put on their first public event: a five screen – better, a five bed sheet – open air projection of super-8 films accompanied by live music. Such an expanded cinema event was not untypical in the super-8 world, in which innovative and performative modes of film exhibition flourished.
(Marc Siegel, "Reflections on Arriving [...]", In: "West Berlin Film in the ‘80s", b_books verlag, Berlin, 2008)

A medium is not an abbreviation that brings one thing to another, but rather a third added to two. A medium is not static, not a bridge, but develops a life of its own whenever activated.
The ECG of metempsychosis (from the genes to the zodiac).
Electrographics of the 4th Dimension.
{Information sheet of the film, 1996}

»Herzsofort.Setzung« is under no cirumstances a mindless rehearsal of various mediaforms. In spite of different forms like Super8, CD-Rom, VHS-Video, colour copy or computer print, that are presented sometimes in an absurd manner, the single generation of the pictures are linked by the pleasure lying in - the uncertainty of the process, also in the formulation of the question. What remains from the transformed man after his bath in the media?
(Filmwinter, Festival Catalogue 1996 - Ulrich Wegenast)

TABU V (wovon man nicht sprechen kann)
TABU V (About Which One Cannot Speak)
13:00 min | 1998 | 16mm | col | sound [MBCFILM#52]
(Tagebuchfilm) | (film diary)

About which one cannot speak, one must make films.
(loosely based on Ludwig Wittgenstein)
{Information sheet of the film, 1998}

TABU V plays with the medium of film in a light-hearted and inquisitive manner; a concentrated, intelligent and multilayered film in which wit is juxtaposed assuredly with profound, searching analysis.
(New York Film Academy Award - Best Short Film, Panorama 1998)

The Hong Kong Showcase (eine Fallstudie)
The Hong Kong Showcase (a case study)
3:20 min | 2005 | DV | col | stereo [MBCFILM#64]
(minikino) | (micro movie)

“The world is everything that is the showcase.”
Living in a globalized world - a case study.
(loosely based on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus, sentence no.1)
{Information sheet of the film, 2005}

The Emporio Armani shop window in Hong Kong is a small theatre of the global fashion industry. At night, a window cleaner sways across the stage, accompanied by classical Chinese music.
(http://www.idfa.nl/idfa_en_filmdescription.asp?filmid=27497, October 2006)

YOU-AND-ME (Exotika)
you-and-me (exotica)
3:30 min | 2012 | HD (16:9) | col | sound [MBCFILM#76]
(Fotofilm) | (photo film)

I want to take a photo with you. / Ok, we can do.
Perfect. So we did a photo. And we do a photo too.
{Information sheet of the film, 2012}

Bye-bye, bits and bytes: I’ve mathemetized myself into digital codes.
-- .. -.-. .... .- . .-.. -... .-. -.-- -. -. - .-. ..- .--.
QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response Code) is an optical label that contains information arranged in a square grid on a white background, which can be read by an imaging device (such as a camera, scanner, etc.) (en.wikipedia.org)
Bye-bye, bits and bytes: I’ve mathemetized myself into digital codes.
{Information sheet of the film, 2016}

21.03.18, Arts Students
Program 2: Portrait Michael Brynntrup
[ 18 min | 1995+2000 | 2 filmvideo ]

Film is no longer what it should have been.
Rhythm in the age of its digital producability.
{Information sheet of the film, 2012}

Photographer Jürgen Baldiga (1959-1993) and filmmaker Michael Brynntrup, - privat discourses and personal investigations of how to deal with images of life and death.
{Information sheet of the film, 1995}

»Aide Mémoire«, a 16-minute short, is decidedly not a documentary about Baldiga's life and work. Twice Brynntrup visits his friend at home, who is sick with AIDS, to ask a few informal questions and to get him on tape. This "Gay Document for Remembering" ("Schwules Gedächtnisprotokoll"), as Brynntrup subtitles the film, is full of gaps: it reproduces few of Baldiga's photographs and mentions only a couple of dates from his life, one of which is his death in December 1993. This reticence, even omission, makes the photographer's life seem all the more transient and the loss that much more poignant.
(Alice Kuzniar, "The Queer German Cinema", Stanford University Press, July 2000)

27.03.18, Arts and Designs Students
Program 3: Portrait Michael Brynntrup
[ 53 min | 1983+2010 | 6 filmvideo ]

DER RHEIN - ein deutsches Märchen
| THE RHINE - A German Fairy Tale
11 min | 1983 | Super8 + 16mm | col | sound [MBCFILM#05]
(Heimatfilm) | (home movie)

DER HIERONYMUS - Totentanz 6
| THE HIERONYMUS - Death Dance 6
7 min | 1989 | Super8 + 16mm | col | sound [MBCFILM#25]

DIE STATIK DER ESELSBRÜCKEN
| THE STATICS - Engineering Memory Bridges
21 min | 1990 | 16mm | bw | sound [MBCFILM#32]
(Filmpuzzle) | (film-puzzle)

NY 'NY 'n why not
4:00 min | 1999 | 35mm | col | stereo [MBCFILM#53]
(Musikfilm) | (music film)

BLUE BOX BLUES (die Inszenierung einer Fotografie)
| BLUE BOX BLUES (Staging a Photo Shoot)
7:40 min | 2004 | DV | col | stereo [MBCFILM#63]
(Fotofilm) | (photo flick)

IMAGEFILM_101010
1:35 min | 2010 | DV + flash | bw+col | stereo [MBCFILM#73]
(quadratischer Film) | (square film)

27.03.18, Arts and Designs Students
Program 4: Student's work from the Film Class Braunschweig
[ 54 min | 2016-2018 | 11 filmvideo ] FILMKLASSE BRAUNSCHWEIG

Stephan Chamier – Brotzeit
8 min | 2016 | HD (16:9) | col | sound | nodialog

Derhoske – Vaurienne Croche
2:20 min | 2016 | HD (16:9) | col | stereo | OVfr

Vitalii Shupliak - Live View
1:24 min | 2018 | HD (16:9) | col | sound | OV (nodialog)

Lukas Hofmann – virtual-cyborg-radio-game
3:20 min | 2016 | HD (16:9) | col | sound | OVdt

Frederic Klamt – Liebeskugeln
1:30 min | 2017 | HD (16:9 / 16mm) | col | silent

Steve Luxembourg – Die letzten Dinge
9:15 min | 2016 | HD (16:9) | col | sound | nodialog

Atiya Noreen Lax – Mirroring
4:24 min | 2017 | HD (16:9) | col | stereo | nodialog

Conrad Veit & Charlotte Maria Kätzl – Blastogenese II
2:45 min | 2017 | HD (4:3 / 16mm) | bw | sound | OVdt

Jiejie Ng – Mein Hutong
11:19 min | 2016 | HD (16:9) | col | sound | OVdt (UTen)
(Meisterschülerarbeit)

Erik Pauhrizi – Unpredictable Waters
13:55 min | 2016 | HD (16:9) | bw | sound | OVen+id (UTen)
(Meisterschülerarbeit)

Renato Vázquez - Ein Blick.
4 min | 2018 | HD (16:9) | col | sound | OV (dialog)

28.03.18, Designs Students
Program 5: Portrait Michael Brynntrup
[ 33 min | 1995-2018 | 2 filmvideo ]

DAS OVO (Ovo - das Video)
THE OVO (Ovo - the Video)
16:30 min | 2005 | DV | col | sound [MBCFILM#65]
(Video Hommage) | (video homage)