Gerd Conradt

Turn Your Eyes To The Present (2015)

Gerd Conradt sits with Frederic Rzewski to have a chat on music. This conversation takes place in Montiano, Italy on August 14th, 1999. ...

Video Vertov (2013)

In VIDEO VERTOV, director Gerd Conradt tells his grandson stories from more than forty years of his eventful life - based on film and video documents. The film tells the life story of the video pioneer: love and revolution, red flag and meditation - exped ...

24 Hours Berlin (2009)

24-hour television documentary about Berlin and its inhabitants, reporting in real time on the everyday lives of more than 50 protagonists from a wide range of professions, social classes, religions and ethnicities. ...

Monte Klamotte - Eine Expedition zum Berliner Schuldenberg (2005)

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 attract interest. ...

Save Berlin! (2003)

In the face of Berlin's current banking crisis, brought about by the Bankgesellschaft Berlin, a group of demonstrators, largely academics, sought to draw attention to the seriousness of this economic scandal. ...

Starbuck Holger Meins (2002)

Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Conradt takes an in-depth look at the helmsman of the Baader-Meinhof gang. Who was Holger Meins? What led him into the underground? What circumstan ...

in-sight (1987)

Gerd Conradt's experimental documentary "Ein-Blick" from 1987 captures the rhythms of daily life along Elsenstraße's border in a time-lapse. Over the course of a day, a camera focuses on a house and watchtower within the border zone, snapping one image pe ...

Der Videopionier (1984)

Schwerter zu Pflugscharen (1984)

In September 1983, a sword is forged into a ploughshare in Wittenberg. It is the most spectacular action of the peace movement in the GDR. Its initiator was the Wittenberg theologian Friedrich Schorlemmer. ...

Über Holger Meins – Ein Versuch, unsere Sicht heute (1982)

Film essay on Holger Meins, Gerd Conradt's former colleague who died on hunger strike in 1975. ...

Summer in the City (1972)

After a long prison term, a free man wanders into a new reality. ...

Die wilden Tiere (1969)

Documents a one-week meeting of radical leftist activists known as "Knastkamp" (Prison battle), which took place in July 1969 in Ebrach, Bamberg. ...

The Inextinguishable Fire (1969)

An austere treatise on the military-industrial complex that produces napalm. ...

Color Test: The Red Flag (1968)

Gerd Conradt films men carrying a red flag in a relay race through Berlin, to hoist it on the balcony of the current Mayor's seat. A cinematic experiment based on Eadweard Muybridge, Andy Warhol and New American Cinema. A study in men, movements and a symb ...

Grenzen (1968)

A Soldier gets harrased by two young man and one old man. ...

Machen wir den Tegeler Weg zur Kochstrasse (1968)

Film announcing the November 4, 1968 demonstration and urging demonstrators to be prepared to fight. ...

Frederic Rzewski eats spaghetti at Carlone Via della Luce 55 (1967)

The composer Frederic Rzewski ordered a film from Gerd Conradt for his piece "Selfportrait". The film was supposed to be shown while he was playing his piece of music, he didn't want to be seen. The film shows Frederic Rzewski sitting down at the table in ...

Silvo (1967)

Documentary showing the daily routine of Sander's seven year old son, Silvo. ...

Subjectivity (1967)

A concise blast of feminist film making, Sander's first film is a tense yet playful four minute short that dissects a typical urban scene at a bus stop on a busy street in Berlin. ...

Situationen (1967)

Scenes from Berlin: Kids playing football, a man tries to light a fire in his stove, a film team sets up a shot in a park, students discuss politics. ...

Santa Lucia (1967)

This film has no story - one could be born at any moment. His characters are the composition of the composition that, in the time they live in, is the composition of the time in which they live. The situations are exemplary, they come from the reality of d ...

Oskar Langenfeld. 12 Mal (1966)

Twelve short scenes of the life of an elderly homeless person, Oskar Langenfeld, in Berlin. ...

The Woddafucka Thing (2024)

The Afro-Berliner DJane Sweety, the Italian karate teacher Gino and his German half-brother Ninja are in deep trouble. They fight for survival: Against a powerful mobster and two nasty real estate sharks who demand a lot of money from them. They only have ...

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors (2022)

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany. A look at the life and work of the couple without whom Arsenal and the Forum wouldn't exist. ...

Who is Helene Schwarz? (2005)

Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966. The path of Helen's career is paved with famous names – including that of Wolfgang Petersen, Holger Meins (who ...

Es stirbt allerdings ein jeder, fragt sich nur wie und wie Du gelebt hast (Holger Meins) (1976)

A look into the life of Holger Meins, the German cinematography student who became a revolutionary and a prominent voice in the Vietnam War protest movement. This film is comprised of interviews with his associates. ...

Color Test: The Red Flag (1968)

Gerd Conradt films men carrying a red flag in a relay race through Berlin, to hoist it on the balcony of the current Mayor's seat. A cinematic experiment based on Eadweard Muybridge, Andy Warhol and New American Cinema. A study in men, movements and a symb ...

Situationen (1967)

Scenes from Berlin: Kids playing football, a man tries to light a fire in his stove, a film team sets up a shot in a park, students discuss politics. ...

Das Vöglein (1966)

Short thriller about an older woman and an escaped convict. ...