Christoph Schlingensief Movies

This black and white silent film with music by Helge Schneider, starring Udo Kier as a vampire and Alfred Edel as an Indian chief was commissioned by...

The German Wagner under the Reinheitsgebot and Manaus under his plume of steam, this does not fit, it collides - and is just for this pure energy.

Documentary satire about a project by Christoph Schlingensief: Ten years after his TV project "Talk 2000", Schlingensief started to work on a new...

An early declaration of war on narrative cinema, using a barrage of visual and acoustic elements while at the same time juggling ironically - as he...

Documentary about Klaus Beyer with footage of this performance at WP8 Künstlerverein, Düsseldorf, talks with Jörg Buttgereit and...

Documentary about filmmaker, author, director, and performance artist Christoph Schlingensief and his last major project, building an opera village...

A satire about an ambitious amateur filmmaker decides to make a movie, enlists his family, uses the entire town as a backdrop, and still fails.

The first short film shot by Schlingensief at the age of eight with some “friends of the basement” and featuring a drama divided into...

The first part of the little trilogy Phantasus muss anders werden; What happened to Magdalena Jung?; and Tunguska – Die Kisten sind da...

“Perpetrators and victims in the generational conflict, wolves in Berlin and sheep in Wales. Contrary to popular expectations, but in keeping...

Originally conceived as a film about 9/11, Richard Wagner, and the warrior Hagen von Tronje, to be shot in the German southwest African colony of...

In MY WIFE IN FIVE, Schlingensief composes tracks and takes to a shimmering cinematic music piece. The playlist changes constantly between the...

An early short film by Christoph Schlingensief, that is already dealing with German bourgeoisie and reality TV. In this television programme...

Five camping youths see at night a ghostly woman, which leads them to the castle of Count Kaunitz, in what will reveal itself to be a gruesome trap. ...

Christoph Schlingensief puts an end to the misery of "new German film production" and at the same time kicks off a new start without stale...