Klaus Wyborny (b. June 5, 1945 in Bittkau in Magdeburg, Germany; lives and works in Hamburg) is a German filmmaker, producer, film director, actor, cameraman and screenwriter, known for his experimental film.
Klaus Wyborny studied from 1963 to 1970 Theoretical Physics at the University of Hamburg and the Yeshiva University in New York City.
Wyborny what co-founder in 1968, with Hellmuth Costard Thomas Struck, Werner Nekes, Helmut Herbst, Werner Grassmann, and others, of the Hamburg film makers Cooperative, which took the New American Cinema as an example and would develop an European version of American underground cinema. He worked for the literary journal, BOA VISTA, and Henry, and was co-founder of the 'Hamburg film discussions'.
In 2010, Klaus Wyborny filmed the world premiere of his cinematic work STUDIEN ZUM UNTERGANG DES ABENDLANDES (STUDIES FOR THE DECAY OF THE WEST), 2010 in Vienna's (meanwhile closed) Stadtkino at Schwarzenbergplatz. He liked the images from the dark movie t ...
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Unpublished film premiered at the Filmmuseum München retrospective. ...
Watch NowKlaus Wyborny's STUDIEN ZUM UNTERGANG DES ABENDLANDS had its premiere at the Viennale in 2010, where it got rave reviews. Afterwards it was shown at several film festivals where Wyborny documented the cinema situations with a video camera. Out of that he ...
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There are about 140 landscapes painted by Claude Monet in Pourville during 4 long stays between 1882 and 1897. The coastline has hardly changed since then. Enriched by the historic dimension Wyborny presents a panorama of this coast by superimposing Monets ...
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A dozen narrative poems by Durs Grünbein, interpreted in sounds and images. Wyborny treats the texts as sounding boards for his own casual observations about the places Grünbein discusses, at times presenting what the writer saw and at others moving in a ...
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Wyborny's latest flicker film concentrates on factories, industrial wastelands, waterways, cityscapes, and the bits in between, and has an uncanny emotional resonance. It is "serene, in the manner of ants"—to quote the title of the second section—but i ...
Watch NowA meeting with Werner Schroeter. An sequence originally featured in Wyborny's Das letzte Jahr extended here to its own short film. ...
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Klaus Wyborny's Das letzte Jahr is a take on Ovid's "Fasti" in three parts. Yet, "a character as confused as our protagonist hardly would have been able to write the first three. For that it needs a clearer head, and thus one essentially would have to be e ...
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The film begins with a visualization of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111, and Wyborny nearly misses the first movement. Yes, the "savage and bare fire" (Kaiser) of this tempestuous last piece of Beethoven nearly tears him apart. He who, ...
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Heinz Emigholz, the premiere purveyor of architectural oddities (Sullivan's Bridges, Goff in the Desert), meticulously documents 15 rooms of the enormous Villa Cargnacco in Lombardy, Italy, designed by proto-fascist poet Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938). ...
Watch NowThe second of five parts of Klaus Wyborny's "Lieder der Erde" / "Song of the Earth" cycle of films, whose theme is "the emergence of modern European civilization." The series comprises five large parts, which are in turn divided into various selections or ...
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The story is set against the background of a bloody civil war in the Roman Empire. Sulla is in the countryside outside Rome and prepares to move into the city, that is in the hands of his enemies. He waits and turns to reflections. And to his lust. ...
Watch NowOne of the most complete of the preserved image programs of the Middle Ages, at the same time abstract and full of touching details. The creation story, which begins with the big bang, has perhaps not been recorded more precisely anywhere. Also ingenious i ...
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Watch NowThe fourth of five parts of Klaus Wyborny's "Lieder der Erde" / "Song of the Earth" cycle of films, whose theme is "the emergence of modern European civilization." The series comprises five large parts, which are in turn divided into various selections or ...
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The whole world in one film: Robert, a young Dane, is shanghaied in Marseille, and via Acapulco he is abducted into the South Pacific. There he kills his father and seduces his mother. Then he explores the changing world. The end finds him in a Polynesian ...
Watch NowThird part of a cycle of five films titled SONGS OF THE EARTH, whose theme is the emergence of European civilization. ...
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This is the first of five parts of Klaus Wyborny's "Lieder der Erde" / "Song of the Earth" cycle of films, whose theme is "the emergence of modern European civilization. ...
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The fifth of five parts of Klaus Wyborny's "Lieder der Erde" / "Song of the Earth" cycle of films, whose theme is "the emergence of modern European civilization." The series comprises five large parts, which are in turn divided into various selections or s ...
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2084 – mankind is about to go for the stars. Humans with XY-chromosomes live in individual cells having no contact with each other. They are considered to be extremely dangerous for society. They are kept alive because some still believe, that they might ...
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Combines three short films: Richard, The Blanket of Life, Elementary Editing Theory ...
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Silent film of scenes taken in the industrial areas of the Rhine and Ruhr river regions. ...
Watch NowUNREACHABLE HOMELESS is particularly lost on the eye, at times changing color, focal length, or focus with every other frame. Its staccato rhythms are not unlike those of Paul Sharit's flicker films, though the use of continually recognizable imagery creat ...
Watch NowBegun in 1971 in Essaouira, Morocco; continued during the filming of "The Birth of a Nation" in 1972 near Erfoud, Morocco; flickering parts based on a score called "PIXTURES - Basic Motion Picture Analysis - Part One - Camera Parameters," in which focal le ...
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... Klaus Wyborny's "Six little Pieces on Film" is the type of work that one is more accustomed to see in Sohos's showcases. Its a Structural film comprised of five or six sequences. Within each there are a set number of shots or kinds of shots which are r ...
Watch NowAn audio-visual film by Klaus Wyborny that focuses on various houses, their patterns and structures. ...
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Woman with American accent reads German phrases and words from a study book on manipulated and degraded film stock. ...
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For 50 minutes or so Pictures presents a series of static, or gently swaying images which are sometimes bucolic landscapes but more often industrial ones (sludgy harbours, power lines, abandoned railway stations or deserted factories). The interplay betwee ...
Watch NowA silent film made by Klaus Wyborny, while he traveled on an aeroplane from San Fransisco to New York. ...
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The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him. ...
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Astronaut Mulligan sets out to find a mysterious planet. ...
Watch NowI began to develop a high level of mistrust of the so-called logical structures, which is why I turned my back on mathematics and turned to film. ...
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"In the early 1970s I filmed compact versions of a series of films that came on television and interested me, which should lead to revealing at least essential parts of their structure. In 1974, 30 of those experiments were mounted in sequence - so more or ...
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The film depicts, in an anecdotal, quasi-anthropological style, the efforts of a group of men in a desert to achieve some kind of social organisation. An opening title locates the action in Morocco, in 1911, the date evidently refers to the work of D.W. Gr ...
Watch Now"Wyborny trained as a mathematician, worked as a cameraman on Werner Herzog's Kasper Hauser. He first attracted the attention of the New York and London avant-gardes … for his elliptical narratives, Dallas Texas - After The Gold Rush (1971) and The Birth ...
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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)". ...
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Before a figure skating championship, a television announcement reminds young girls about the emancipation of women. ...
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Using his original 8mm films, but blowing them up to 16mm, he created a collage of images that became his four-part film DÄMONISCHE LEINWAND (The Haunted Screen, 1969), quoting Lotte Eisner's famous study of Weimar cinema in its title. ...
Watch Now"At a time which is not ours, this film was found on a heap of scrap metal, close to Nanterre. It tells of the desparate attempt of a group of people to adjust to the rules others have imposed upon them. ...
Watch NowA society is described in which everyone only has six days to live. The film follows two of these people through their existence. People are born by appearing, they die by disappearing. When all the people appearing in the film died in a more or less natur ...
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Watch NowThe story of a man who, after an impenetrable life, returns home to the site of a sweet memory... ...
Watch NowIn conversations with his friends and colleagues, among them Bernd Upnmoor, Helmut Herbst, Alexander Kluge, Klaus Wyborny, Daniel Kothenschulte and Helge Schneider, Ulrike Pfeiffer takes us on a journey into the broad expanse of Nekes' cabinet of wonder an ...
Watch NowA 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. ...
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After Roy's demise, five friends try to reconstruct his life by reading through the late editor's notebooks - only to face some very personal demons. The Holy Bunch is a modernist melodrama: beyond-Antonioni in its images, decisively Dreyerian in its spiri ...
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Harry, a timpanist and pyromaniac, and Ginamove into the same apartment due to Hamburg's housing shortage. This is the beginning of a wonderful enmity, with Harry, who has been tried and tested in marital warfare, and relationship terrorist Gina proving to ...
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Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all combinations of the sound sections with each of the image sections. This established affinities between each of the image sections to the others, and the sound sections t ...
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Watch NowDiwan, a lyric anthology, an outdoor movie with people. With people living in the surrounding precious and very beautifully photographed nature, are neither more nor less than one part of it. What Nekes manages there with landscape, as a cunning and quote ...
Watch NowThe film depicts, in an anecdotal, quasi-anthropological style, the efforts of a group of men in a desert to achieve some kind of social organisation. An opening title locates the action in Morocco, in 1911, the date evidently refers to the work of D.W. Gr ...
Watch NowThe story of a man who never attended Sarah Lawrence College but still made some impact. ...
Watch NowThe story of a group that has a difficult time near Bialystok at dawn on July 19, 1944. ...
Watch NowA 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 ...
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