Dokumente zur Lebensweise: Wohnungsprobleme 1982/83 - Dokument I

Richard Wotton: Moments Later

A photographer explores the seldom noticed architecture in his home town.

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

New York Portrait, Chapter II

Chapter Two represents a continuation of daily observations from the environment of Manhattan compiled over a period from 1980-1981. This is the second part of an extended life's portrait of New York.

99 days

Two instants separated by 99 days conflict with each other.

The Life of a Killed Frog

The Day of No One

A silent day unfolds on the slope of a mountain… A child exists alongside his mother and father, yet each of them seems to inhabit a different world. With no dialogue, the film relies on visual storytelling. In certain close-up shots, color fades to black and white; symbolizing moments of inner solitude, personal conflict, and emotional disconnection. The unseen distances within the family are revealed not through words, but through images.

The Incredible Bread Machine Film

A discussion of the economic and political ideas presented in the book "The Incredible Bread Machine".

In Prague

Documentary short film by Mario Handler about the city of Prague as part of an internship to study film in Europe.

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Expedition

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Journey is a Norwegian documentary film that features Roald Amundsen's original footage from his South Pole expedition from 1910 to 1912.

Barcelona. Ritmo de un día

L'album de famille de Jean Renoir

Everything

Here's a strange one. First, a song on a blackboard: a Polish translation of “I love my little rooster” by American folk writer Almeda Riddle. Then, two men roll around trash bins and lift them to the garbage truck. They do it several times. A woman shouts in the distance. At the end, the picture stops, and the woman sings the song. An early short by Piotr Szulkin.

Vita di borgata

i'm 22 now but i won't be for long

Made primarily using 35mm black & white stills film, which was developed and scanned at home, the film explores themes of memories, nostalgia, and our relationship to still and moving image and how those two mediums differ in regards to how we process the passing of time.

Hirten und Herden in der Pußta

Short film about shepherds in the Puszta

Reservisten

A report on the work of a reservist collective from a factory of the Guben chemical fiber combine.

Laci's Great Escape

Laci is almost ready for his great escape - standing in his way are his watchful parents, a depressed grandmother, and a cat who still has a lot to forgive.

Projektionen der Sehnsucht

The First Foot

Voices from the past echo through the deserted, snow-covered stone houses in a village in the Caucasus Mountains.

Galicia

Short documentary about social and economic situation in Galicia (Spain) in 1936