Helmut Herbst Movies

Figures in a side-scrolling landscape.

A film drawn and dubbed by children in a 6th grade class, animated by Franz Winzentsen.

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

A cloud of black dust, one of white dust, and the world.

The year was 1972. A commune of Berlin stoners and intellectuals set adrift in space in a packing container clutched in a giant flying hand. Based...

A “film-noir” on double identity and role reversal. A man is looking for a woman to love. He finds her in a seedy bar and persuades her...

Astronaut Mulligan sets out to find a mysterious planet.

In the first half of the 19th century there was a revolt in the central state of Hesse, led by Georg Büchner (Gregor Hansen), the well-known...

An essayistic documentary about the action art movement that emerged in the 1960s: In interviews with various action artists, including Wolf Vostell,...

The grotesque portrayal of an attempt at communication, graphically and rigorously depicted: In the LCB's second production, Peter Rühmkorf and...

A documentary about the 'critical mass', the Film Coop, a group of young filmmakers in Hamburg during the 1960s - a small group far from the...

Reel 27 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

A short film by Franz Winzentsen

An animated film made from collages. With a film text by poet and left-wing essayist Peter Rühmkorf. A satire on advertising language.

A man-made catastrophe depopulates entire regions. How do survivors observe this event, and how do others react?

Hollywood opening credits with crashing sea waves and expectant orchestral music opens the film. Then the viewer's gaze is carried through a room. In...

A documentary which looks at Heartfield primarily as a political activist working in a specific historical context. It demonstrates this relationship...

A day in a young slacker's life in Hamburg, Germany.

Director Helmut Herbst’s animated sci-fi short with characters that would be more fully explored in CATHEDRAL OF NEW EMOTIONS.

The film makes fun of the superficial changes in power in their birthplaces. Herbst's painting depicts a society of excited string toys who first...