Textliste englisch | textlist english {title animation with ECG curve} MBC-FILMPRODUKTION {with signature} {title} presents {title} a film {title} by a filmmaker {title} (opening short) {title} Self-Portrait with Chandelier Narrator (MB): (off) This is the emergency ward of the IKK hospital in Berlin-Neukölln. It's almost midnight. {tagline} IKK-hospital, Berlin-Neukölln, 11:52 p.m. Narrator (MB): (off) A patient has just been brought in. An ordinary case. For the physicians a case just like any other. But the police were informed and an army of private detectives and reporters fills the room. Nurse: Stop, don't come any further. - Please no photos, no pictures. - Stop! No. Narrator (MB): (off) A catastrophe has occurred in a Berlin film studio. Of course you will read about it in tomorrow's newspaper. - Radio and TV will report on it. Because - the media itself is involved in this case. Paramedic: ...one two three - lift! {intertitle} E.C.G.1.0.1 {intertitle} The Self-Portrait of a Filmmaker in Broadcast and Artistic Media Surgeon: (off) No, this doesn't make sense. Surgeon: Please hold him down again, and increase Dormicum 5ml. {tagline} IKK-hospital, 11:54 p.m. (11:55 p.m.) Narrator (MB): (off) A catastrophe has occurred in a Berlin film studio. - Radio and TV will report on it. Because... the media itself is involved in this case. Nurse: I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, you're not allowed to film in here. - Please leave. No, I'm sorry. - Please leave. No photos, no pictures. I'm sorry. You can't! Narrator (MB): (off) Before everything is blown up and distorted by the tabloids and broadcast media, I think you'd rather hear the real state of affairs. - A young man is lying on the operating table in this emergency room. He has a slight bleeding in the brain and grave internal injuries. - Nobody important. Just a minor filmmaker, who made a couple of experimental films and second-class scripts. - The poor dreamer. - He always longed for public attention and when he finally got it he had to pay a high price. Narrator (MB): (off) Let's turn back the wheel of time, to six months ago, the day when it all began. - I was living in a furnished room in the city centre and I wasn't in a good state. I'd just received a rather big film grant for a small script, but I didn't know at all, how to begin the film. I was just sitting around, torturing myself, trying to find an original beginning. Narrator (MB): (off) But it didn't work out for me. The beginnings were not original enough or maybe even too original. MB: Hello? Telephonist: Good afternoon, this is WDR Broadcasting Corporation. Just a moment, I'll connect you. TL: Hello. MB: Yes, Brynntrup here, how are you. TL: Good afternoon, this is Tim Lienhardt. I'm a TV journalist from Cologne and... I know... your films. In recent years I've seen a couple of them at Berlinale, and I'm very impressed and curious to meet you, so I can profile you for our arts program. MB: Really? For TV? TL: For TV, indeed. It's WDR-TV in Cologne. - And it'll be a portrait of you. MB: Sounds good... so what's your plan? TL: First, a question: Are there already any portraits of you? Because...I don't want to do what's been done before. MB: No, never. - Nobody's made any portraits before. Fine. TL: Well, here's the plan: I'll visit you in Berlin with my crew. - I think maybe in your apartment, it doesn't matter. MB: That's fine, yes. Here in my apartment, good. TL: Yes, we settle in, and set up the tripod and camera. - I'll sit next to it and interview you. MB: Yes, good. TL: Can we do it like that? MB: Yes, sure. TL: Ok, I'll call you again. I'm often in Berlin. MB: Ok. When will it happen? TL: As soon as possible. MB: I'll wait for your call. TL: Great. MB: Ok, I'm looking forward to it. TL: Me too. MB: Ok, bye. TL: Yes, cheerio. Narrator (MB): (off) At this very moment I got the idea of how to begin my film. Perhaps it wasn't the most original idea, but certainly good enough for a start. {intertitle} three weeks later MB: A TV crew is coming to my place today, to do the first-ever report on me for German TV. I must say I'm quite nervous and excited and have a little headache. But this is clear: If they film me, then I'll film them. {intertitle} If TV shoots me, then I'll shoot TV! MB: Hi! Two cameras rolling, right? TVT: Should I look into the camera? MB: Wow, what a big camera! MB: Go on in. We can do it in there. TL: Everything will be recorded right from the beginning. MB: Ok, good. It's a bit narrow in here, but... {intertitle} The TV crew visits the filmmaker in his flat. MB: We can do it, right? TVT: Yep, we can get it done! MB: Ok, super! Narrator (TL): (off) The filmmaker was living in a furnished room, torturing himself, trying to find an original beginning. Narrator (TL): (off) The poor dreamer. He always longed for public attention and when he finally got it... he had to pay a high price. TL: We are ready. MB: Really? TL: We're ready when you are. MB: Okay. MB: Is it okay to sit like this? TVT: Yes, fine. MB: Is it rolling? TL: Is it rolling? TVT: Yes, it's already rolling. TL: Good, so we can begin. MB: ok. TL: Michael, let's begin with a quick bio. Born, education, just so we know... Who is this Michael Brynntrup? Just the basics. MB: Beginning -oh my god- always these beginnings. Where to begin? TL: (off) With your birth. MB: With my birth. - Born in 1959 - going on 37 years ago... and... MB: ...and then it just happened that I became a filmmaker, finally. Cameraman: (off) Rolling! MB: (off) Action! {superimposition} TTV {Logo} TTV-Reporter: We're back, live from IKK hospital in Berlin. TTV, live on location! TTV-Reporter: The operation has been going on now for over an hour. This is -we assume- because the injuries might be rather serious. No statements are being given by the PR spokespersons of the hospital. {superimposition} TTV on the spot TTV-Reporter: Right now we'll try to get a direct comment from one of the head surgeons. MB: mhm TL: (off) Do you know shame? MB: Ja, mhm. - I have to make a short comment, -well- here is where the film has its narrative gap. -eh- excuse me for a few moments. I'll be right back,... as soon as the film continues. MB: Am I making it short enough? TL: Let's return to shame... MB: Shame. TL: I'm quite sure that the viewers -because of the filmclips we show them- think: that's quite shameless! For example a clip from The Statics: you filmed yourself sleeping, with rising and falling erections, right? MB: Yes, it's obvious that the TV picks these sensational clips. But one has to realize that these images appear in the context of a 20 minute film. And I really prefer to show these films in their entirety. Excerpts lie, don't they? Spr: (off) Lover in Bathing Trunks: the Filmmaker Michael Brynntrup. TV Announcer: For many viewers of TV and cinema, independent film is indigestible... {tagline} SAT.1 Regional Report / Baden-Württemberg TV Announcer: ...or even trash. - But these little pearls of screen-culture are quite appealing and attract an enthusiastic audience. {tagline} Report / Claus Hanischdörfer Narrator (CH): This is the first time that in this new cinema the pearls of independent film flicker on screen. Narrator (CH): The program again offers a view beyond the conventions of cinema. Narrator (CH): For the average couch potato, it's often indigestable. TTV-Reporter: (off) ...the operation has been going on for about one hour here at IKK hospital. Can you share the latest news with the public? - How is our patient doing? {tagline} Excerpt from / "E.C.G.1.0.1" Surgeon: Well, of course... we are still assessing the situation. But I'm sure in about one or two hours, we'll know more. TTV-Reporter: At least another one or two more hours... Narrator (CH): Besides the films there are several lectures and media art exhibitions. At the Künstlerhaus you can see work by Michael Brynntrup: painter, filmmaker and photographer. {tagline} Michael Brynntrup / Media Artist MB: Each media has it's specific possibilities and peculiarities, and therefore I like... to work with many media, because... each is specific and unique. Narrator (CH): "New Media" will be included for the first time at the upcoming Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival CH: First question: your project 'Heart.Instant/iation', what is it about? MB: Yes, um, where to begin? I've told you before: I'm long-winded. CH: Fine. MB: In a few words: I made a Polaroid of myself and scribbled on it, then I photocopied, enlarged it... and then I noticed that many generations -one after another- came up. And then I decided to develop it as an artpiece. And then I began to produce different generations in different media. - So that's how it originated. MB: So that's how it originated. TV Announcer: Well, that's something different. {title} (Once again, from the top) {title} Self-Portrait with Chandelier TTV-Reporter: (off) Go! Get his face! I want it all, everything! - Facts, pictures! Zoom in! Extreme close-up! - Don't spoil the shot! Get really close! Nurse: Careful! - Stop, don't come any further. - Please no photos, no pictures. - Sorry! - Stop! My apologies... {tagline} (IKK hospital, Berlin, five minutes to midnight.) Paramedic: ...one two three - lift! Surgeon: (off) Can you hear me? - Call the anaesthesiologist! - How's his blood-pressure? Paramedic: (off) 80 over 40, falling fast! Surgeon: We'll need CT afterwards. Call the neurosurgeons. - Check his blood-pressure again. - Blood-pressure? Paramedic: 60 over 40, still falling. Nurse: (off) Intubation? Surgeon: Wouldn't make any sense. We'll make an incision. - Have the Suprarenin ready. Prepare a dose immediately. Prepare the needle, stat! And Ventanyl for the narcosis. Nurse: Okay. Surgeon: (off) Tell me... have the neurosurgeons called? - Nurse: (off) No they havn't. Nurse: (off) Dormicum, 5 in 10 ml.... Nurse: Soon you'll fall asleep. Think of a pretty picture... maybe a painting... or a flower bouquet or a pretty landscape. Or just think of a marvellous film. You'll see, it's no big drama. - Ok, start counting to ten, very slowly... {intertitle} E.C.G.1.0.1 {intertitle} The Self-Portrait of a Filmmaker in Broadcast and Artistic Media {intertitle} (Epilogue) {intertitle} Being Queer as a Commissioned Work {textmotif} Short Circuit, The TV Magazine. - #74. woman (off): Short Circuit, Short Film. - Short Circuit, The TV Magazine. Gay Cinema is especially important in the USA. But today, there are also many European film festivals dedicated to gay and lesbian film. {title} TV-X-perm. {singsong} arte {textmotif} What does 'Gay Film' mean anyway? woman (off): Since the early 80s, Brynntrup has been working in the fields of art and experimental film. What does it mean for him, to be a gay filmmaker? MB: I'm Michael Brynntrup, a gay filmmaker, from Berlin. {title} Michael Brynntrup's Gay Self-Portrait for arte-TV MB (off) : I'm Michael Brynntrup, a gay filmmaker from Berlin. Actually I'm not a gay filmmaker because I make gay films, - Ok, I also make gay films, and yes, there is a gay aesthetic too, but a gay filmmaker I am, because I'm gay. {title} X-perm. {singsong} arte {intertitle} You have seen a film by, with, and - about the filmmaker. {intertitle} For general information on film and TV, please refer to the following programs. {intertitle} End of Film {intertitle} www.endedesfilms.de {translation: Odette Buss, Wayne Yung} Abbreviations: TL = Tim Lienhardt CH = Claus Hanischdörfer MB = Michael Brynntrup