Klaus Wyborny Movies

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...

Astronaut Mulligan sets out to find a mysterious planet.

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...

Heinz Emigholz, the premiere purveyor of architectural oddities (Sullivan’s Bridges, Goff in the Desert), meticulously documents 15 rooms of...

Part 1 of "3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein" (for Laurence Rickels)

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

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...

Agatha is an international lawyer, Jo a filmmaker. The two women are lovers. While Jo is on the road showing her films, Agatha discovers and reads...

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...

A silent film

"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...

The story of a man who never attended Sarah Lawrence College but still made some impact.

A man-made catastrophe depopulates entire regions. How do survivors observe this event, and how do others react?

A 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...

The story of a man who, after an impenetrable life, returns home to the site of a sweet memory...

Film footage from The Birth of a Nation, Die Abenteuer des Mister West im Lande der Bolschewiki, The Docks of New York, Tabu, Morocco, Citizen Kane,...

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...

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...

A man walks back and forth along a street, shot in a rapid rhythm according to a fixed editing pattern. He occasionally recovers by drinking a glass...

Klaus Wyborny’s STUDIEN ZUM UNTERGANG DES ABENDLANDS had its premiere at the Viennale in 2010, where it got rave reviews. Afterwards it was...