Klaus Wyborny Movies

  • 2009
    The Last Year

    The Last Year

    The Last Year

    02009HD

    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...

    The Last Year
  • 1974
    The Ideal: Ecstasy & Beauty

    The Ideal: Ecstasy & Beauty

    The Ideal: Ecstasy & Beauty

    01974HD

    I 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.

    The Ideal: Ecstasy & Beauty
  • 1970
    Ludwig van Beethoven - Ein Leben für die Musik

    Ludwig van Beethoven - Ein Leben für die Musik

    Ludwig van Beethoven - Ein Leben für die Musik

    01970HD

    A short film

    Ludwig van Beethoven - Ein Leben für die Musik
  • 2016
    Britain’s Glory

    Britain’s Glory

    Britain’s Glory

    02016HD

    Unpublished film premiered at the Filmmuseum München retrospective.

    Britain’s Glory
  • 1981
    3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein

    3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein

    3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein

    01981HD

    Combines three short films: Richard, The Blanket of Life, Elementary Editing Theory

    3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein
  • 1976
    Housefilm

    Housefilm

    Housefilm

    01976HD

    An audio-visual film by Klaus Wyborny that focuses on various houses, their patterns and structures.

    Housefilm
  • 1968
    Im KZ

    Im KZ

    Im KZ

    01968HD

    The story of a group that has a difficult time near Bialystok at dawn on July 19, 1944.

    Im KZ
  • 1980
    The Scenic Sacrifice

    The Scenic Sacrifice

    The Scenic Sacrifice

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    Silent film of scenes taken in the industrial areas of the Rhine and Ruhr river regions.

    The Scenic Sacrifice
  • 1973
    The Birth of a Nation

    The Birth of a Nation

    The Birth of a Nation

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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...

    The Birth of a Nation
  • 1968
    Three Days with Janine, Three Days with John

    Three Days with Janine, Three Days with John

    Three Days with Janine, Three Days with John

    01968HD

    A 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...

    Three Days with Janine, Three Days with John
  • 1969
    Thorium 232

    Thorium 232

    Thorium 232

    01969HD

    A short film

    Thorium 232
  • 2012
    Syrakus

    Syrakus

    Syrakus

    02012HD

    A dozen narrative poems by Durs Grünbein, interpreted in sounds and images. Wyborny treats the texts as sounding boards for his own casual...

    Syrakus
  • 1975
    Pictures of the Lost Word

    Pictures of the Lost Word

    Pictures of the Lost Word

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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...

    Pictures of the Lost Word
  • 1978
    Unreachable Homeless - Sonata on Film

    Unreachable Homeless - Sonata on Film

    Unreachable Homeless - Sonata on Film

    01978HD

    UNREACHABLE HOMELESS is particularly lost on the eye, at times changing color, focal length, or focus with every other frame. Its staccato rhythms...

    Unreachable Homeless - Sonata on Film
  • 2009
    Begegnung mit Werner Schroeter

    Begegnung mit Werner Schroeter

    Begegnung mit Werner Schroeter

    02009HD

    A meeting with Werner Schroeter. An sequence originally featured in Wyborny's Das letzte Jahr extended here to its own short film.

    Begegnung mit Werner Schroeter
  • 1974
    Elementary Filmhistory

    Elementary Filmhistory

    Elementary Filmhistory

    01974HD

    "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...

    Elementary Filmhistory
  • 1969
    The Greatest Crime of All Time

    The Greatest Crime of All Time

    The Greatest Crime of All Time

    01969HD

    A short film

    The Greatest Crime of All Time
  • 1968
    Up to the Stars

    Up to the Stars

    Up to the Stars

    01968HD

    Dedicated to the Soviet-Astronauts

    Up to the Stars
  • 1969
    The Haunted Screen

    The Haunted Screen

    The Haunted Screen

    01969HD

    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
  • 2004
    Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2)

    Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2)

    Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2)

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    The 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...

    Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2)