Hellmuth Costard

Realtime (1983)

ECHTZEIT by Hellmuth Costard and Jürgen Ebert is a film like thoughts. About reality and the digitalized world. A film about Ruth and Georg, who may no longer exist. A film about "imaginary cameras", synthetic landscapes, about (flight) simulators and Per ...

Little Godard (1978)

The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources, if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to raise f ...

Teilweise von mir - Ein Volksstück (1972)

The film is based on a variety of reflections on politics and labor, economy and technology, identity and advertising. ...

Football As Never Before (1971)

In this film, we follow footballer George Best over a 90-minute match against Coventry City, which took place on 12th September 1970. There is no soundtrack and no interview overlaid, just Best doing what he did best - playing football. ...

The Oppression of the Woman Is Especially Seen in the Attitude of the Women Themselves (1969)

The movements, routines and gestures that compose an ordinary day in the life of an ordinary housewife, recorded in the minutest every more oppressive details, become a sort of catalyst by the unique and simple means of having the woman played by a man wit ...

Von der Revolte zur Revolution oder Warum die Revolution erst morgen stattfindet (1969)

"Expropriated Springer!" is the motto of the extra-parliamentary movement after the murder of Benno Ohnesorg in 1967. In many cities, demonstrators are trying to prevent the delivery of the Bild newspaper. The film documents the siege of the Springer House ...

Of Special Merit (1968)

An attack on a piece of reactionary German legislation discriminating against young film directors. The film features a head-on, close-up shot of a penis 'mouthing' the parliamentary defense of the law by its author. A landmark in political pamphleteering, ...

Why Did You Kiss Me Awake? (1967)

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 mirror you see for a moment a naked girl holding the recording subjective camera under her arm, she pull ...

One Brachet Close Brachet (1966)

A young man decides to leave the country after the 1965 West German parliamentary elections. He hitchhikes out of Hamburg, but makes it only as far as the Lüneburg Heath. There, he meets a woman driving a Jaguar, protects her from an "attack" by a light s ...

Tom ist doof (1965)

ASTA-Spot (1964)

The Critical Mass (1999)

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 Mainstream or the New German Cinema. ...

Little Godard (1978)

The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources, if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to raise f ...

Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge) (1970)

The drawings on which the series is based were created in 1969 and served as a template for a slide series in 1970. During its screening, this is interrupted by the film "Percy McPhee Agent of Horror (6th + 7th episode)". ...

Of Special Merit (1968)

An attack on a piece of reactionary German legislation discriminating against young film directors. The film features a head-on, close-up shot of a penis 'mouthing' the parliamentary defense of the law by its author. A landmark in political pamphleteering, ...

Der warme Punkt (1968)

Two aspiring filmmakers walk through Hamburg with a camera operator and a sound operator. From the time they get out bed to their encounter with a production manager, they are harassed by an intermittent white dot. ...

Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)

The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna. ...