Lutz Dammbeck Movies

Explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this...

Masao Adachi, the author and director of experimental works and pinku-eiga in the 1960s, was a member of the Japanese New Left that shifted from...

Dammbeck made this film – a reference to the myth of Icarus and a metaphor for failure, hope, and human exploration – at the invitation...

On a talkshow, actor and German TV ikon Joachim Fuchsberger recalls how the games for his show "Nur nicht nervös werden" (Don't Get Nervous),...

This short film traces the story of a man from birth to old age. The magical dreams of his youth appear from time to time, but daily routine quickly...

The source material came from the prosecution, who wanted to use it as a basis. The 120 hours of material from the broadcasts of various US...

For the multimedia exhibition Tangenten I (Tangents I), Dammbeck and co-organizer, sculptor and painter Frieder Heinze had planned to collaborate on...

At the Vienna Art Academy in 1994, an unidentified person painted over 27 works by Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer. Rainer had become world-famous for...

Young Duke Ernest wants to become a good knight. The circumstances are not in his favour: The emperor wants to claim the Duke's castle and marry his...

The film explores what transformations in power and politics do to art, how much opportunism can be found in “pure” art and whether...

Dammbeck, himself an alumnus of the Leipzig Academy for Graphic and Book Design, presents the origins of the new German realism developed by the...

The very first images in the film set unprecedented standards in East German animated film: a Buñuelean eye that fills the entire screen,...

From Stag Beetle to Swastika narrates in a richly detailed, associative montage the boundless possibilities of manipulating images and using images...

In 1985 under the Pseudonym "Hakim Bey" Peter Lamborn Wilson published the book "TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic...

This multimedia collage, which includes performances by pantomime artist and dancer Fine Kwiatkowski, painter and filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck and...

Despite seeing his film project HERCULES rejected by DEFA Studios in 1983-84, Dammbeck remained fascinated by the Hercules story. He started...

A little bumblebee is tired of her daily routine and the other boring bumblebees. She flies to the place of her dreams and meets a frog who is also...

The moon swirls happily around, watching strange animals enjoying themselves and dancing to gramophone music in its light. Then, suddenly, the moon...

Dammbeck relocates the Leipzig-based artists' circle known as Herbstsalon to La Sarraz Palace in Switzerland, which in 1929 was the venue of the...

Together with Lutz Dammbeck, dancer Fine Kwiatkowski explores myths, political systems and their impact on society.