Lutz Dammbeck

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

In this film, Dammbeck explores his own decision to relocate to Hamburg, West Germany, and tries to sort out his past as an artist. In the ...

Two men sit on an island watching the sunset. When a storm gathers, they decide to build a boat. While one man is mindful of the coming danger ...

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 ...

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

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

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