Christoph Schlingensief Movies

A study of Alexander Kluge that also emulates his technique of seeking and linking. Kluge reads aloud, Kluge recounts, including stories from his...

A satire about an ambitious amateur filmmaker decides to make a movie, enlists his family, uses the entire town as a backdrop, and still fails.

An early declaration of war on narrative cinema, using a barrage of visual and acoustic elements while at the same time juggling ironically - as he...

Monkey fuhrer.

A pure nightmare: outtakes of a film that consists of nothing but outtakes. Its truest moment is a dream sequence in which the torturous initial...

The first part of the little trilogy Phantasus muss anders werden; What happened to Magdalena Jung?; and Tunguska – Die Kisten sind da...

Film by Kluge and Aust.

The German Wagner under the Reinheitsgebot and Manaus under his plume of steam, this does not fit, it collides - and is just for this pure energy.

An early short film by Christoph Schlingensief, that is already dealing with German bourgeoisie and reality TV. In this television programme...

Originally conceived as a film about 9/11, Richard Wagner, and the warrior Hagen von Tronje, to be shot in the German southwest African colony of...

The first short film shot by Schlingensief at the age of eight with some “friends of the basement” and featuring a drama divided into...

The capital Berlin is heavily in debt. Annually it takes 16 billion euros, but gives out 20 billion. The minus is covered by loans, which in turn...

Documentary about Klaus Beyer with footage of this performance at WP8 Künstlerverein, Düsseldorf, talks with Jörg Buttgereit and...

Documentary about the German artist Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997).

Feature documentary about Christoph Schlingensief's political party/art project "Chance 2000".

A psychodrama based on the criminal activities of the former STASI (state security police) in the now defunct German Democratic Republic.

Documentary about filmmaker, author, director, and performance artist Christoph Schlingensief and his last major project, building an opera village...