» ACHTUNG «
(Michael Brynntrup - ein Einblick)

Sonntag, 21.04.02, 19:30 h
Kino Arsenal - Potsdamer Str. 2 - 10785 Berlin

Programm | program

SCHWARZFILM, Stumm, 5 Minuten
SCHWARZFILM, Silent, 5 Minutes
3 Min. | 1984 | Super8 + 16mm | bw | silent [MBCFILM#09]
Wie gesagt. - Ein Film wie sein Titel.
{Informationsblatt zum Film, 1984}
As said. - A film like its title.
{Information sheet of the film, 1984}
STUMMFILM für Gehörlose
SILENT MOVIE For Deaf People
6 Min. | 1984 | Super8 + 16mm | bw | sound [MBCFILM#08]
(Lehrfilm) | (educational film)
Dieser Film heißt nicht -wie fälschlicherweise unterstellt wird- 'Laufende Bilder für Gehbehinderte'. ... ein Lehr- und Übungsfilm.
{Informationsblatt zum Film, 1984}
The title of this film isn't -as is mistakenly assumed- 'Moving Pictures for the Movement Disabled'. ... an educational and exercise film.
{Information sheet of the film, 1984}
TESTAMENTO MEMORI
TESTAMENTO MEMORI
8 Min. | 1986 | Super8 + 16mm | col | sound [MBCFILM#15]
(Problemfilm) | (problem film)
Früher oder später wird jeder mit dem Problem konfrontiert: 'Wohin mit der Leiche', - ein Problemfilm. Psychosomatische Geburtsvorbereitung mit praktischen Übungen zur Sterbehilfe.
{Informationsblatt zum Film, 1986}
Sooner or later everyone is confronted with this problem: what to do with the body. A problem film. - Psychosomatic birth preparation with practical exercises for euthanasia.
{Information sheet of the film, 1986}
NARZISS UND ECHO
NARCISSUS AND ECHO
14 Min. | 1989 | 16mm | bw | sound [MBCFILM#30]
(Rätselfilm) | (riddle film)
Ein Rätselfilm ist die besondere Form des Unterhaltungsfilms, bei dem der Inhalt aus dem formalen Gefüge des Films erraten werden muß.
{Informationsblatt zum Film, 1989}
Long seemed invalid the Prophet's word, - But honored it was, - By the outcome at last: - How odd the maddness, how strange a death! (Ovid, Metamorphoses)
{Information sheet of the film, 1989}

Brynntrup creates his own rococo version of the classical myth of Narcissus and Echo, a story of longing, love, and self-love. Brynntrup comments "A film in the form of a riddle is a special kind of entertainment film whereby the film's content must be deduced from the film's formal structure."
(Information The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film, 1992 - Karen Lund)
MODERN, das - Totentanz 7
DECA(Y)DANCE - Death Dance 7
7 Min. | 1991 | 16mm | col | sound [MBCFILM#34]
"Totenmaske, Gesichtsabdruck eines Verstorbenen in weichem Gips oder Wachs"
{Informationsblatt zum Film, 1991}
"Death mask: facial imprint of the deceased in soft plaster or wax."
{Information sheet of the film, 1991}
LIEBE, EIFERSUCHT UND RACHE
LOVE, JEALOUSY AND REVENGE
7 Min. | 1991 | 16mm | col | sound [MBCFILM#35]
(Lehrfilm) | (educational film)
Du weißt ganz genau, daß jetzt viele Länder Filme in ihrer Sprache herstellen ... (Original mit Untertiteln). - You know that every film has its own language ... (subtitled original)
{Informationsblatt zum Film, 1991}
You know very well, that nowadays many countries produce films in their own language ... (original with subtitles).
{Information sheet of the film, 1991}

The witty »Love, Jealousy and Revenge« explores the mobile meanings of language in film with the help of sophisticated telecommunications; an aural/oral offering.
(Hygiene and Hysteria Tour Program, UK 1994 - Sarah Turner, Ian Rashid)
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)
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man Filme machen.
(frei nach Ludwig Wittgenstein)
{Informationsblatt zum Film, 1998}
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)
ACHTUNG - die Achtung (concentration chair)
ACHTUNG - Respect (concentration chair)
14 Min. | 2001 | 35mm | bw + col | stereo [MBCFILM#56]
(Sensations- und Besinnungsfilm) | (sensation film)
Daß alle unsere Erkenntnis mit der Erfahrung anfange, daran ist gar kein Zweifel.
(Immanuel Kant, Einleitung zur Kritik der reinen Vernunft, 1.Satz)
Im Körper geboren (...und in der Zeit...)
{Informationsblatt zum Film, 2001}
There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
(Immanuel Kant, Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason, opening sentence)
Born in the body (...and in time...)
{Information sheet of the film, 2001}

Certainly even today some viewers will be affected by this work. Respect for the true art of filmmaking demanded that even the closeup be kept in, where a razor slices through an eye.
(Warning introduction to the German archival copy of UN CHIEN ANDALOU)