Helmut Herbst Movies

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

A “film-noir” on double identity and role reversal. A man is looking for a woman to love. He finds her in a seedy bar and persuades her...

A day in a young slacker's life in Hamburg, Germany.

The year was 1972. A commune of Berlin stoners and intellectuals set adrift in space in a packing container clutched in a giant flying hand. Based...

In conversations with his friends and colleagues, among them Bernd Upnmoor, Helmut Herbst, Alexander Kluge, Klaus Wyborny, Daniel Kothenschulte and...

Documentary by Helmut Herbst.

Reel 27 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

A documentary which looks at Heartfield primarily as a political activist working in a specific historical context. It demonstrates this relationship...

Short film about music lovers awaiting the end of time.

Short film by Helmut Herbst.

This documentary concerns the contributions of German artists to the Dadaist movement. Created in 1916, the organizers rejected previous convention...

Animated feature by Helmut Herbst.

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...

Figures in a side-scrolling landscape.

Short by Helmut Herbst.

In the first half of the 19th century there was a revolt in the central state of Hesse, led by Georg Büchner (Gregor Hansen), the well-known...

A cloud of black dust, one of white dust, and the world.

Documentary about the film pioneer Guido Seeber