Holger Meins

Une jeunesse allemande

Jean-Gabriel Périot

Harun Farocki, Philip W. Sauber

At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist capitalism and a state apparatus in which they believed they saw fascist tendencies. This generation included journalist Ulrike Meinhof, lawyer Horst Mahler, filmmaker Holger Meins as well as students Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader.

Subjektitüde

Helke Sander

Wolf­gang Sippel, Hans-Rüdiger Minow

A concise blast of feminist film making, Sander's first film is a tense yet playful four minute short that dissects a typical urban scene at a bus stop on a busy street in Berlin.

Farbtest - Die rote Fahne

Carlos Bustamante, Helke Sander

Hans Behringer, Gerd Conradt

Gerd Conradt films men carrying a red flag in a relay race through Berlin, to hoist it on the balcony of the current Mayor’s seat. A cinematic experiment based on Eadweard Muybridge, Andy Warhol and New American Cinema. A study in men, movements and a symbol. This is the 7th part of this series of film exercises. The other 6 parts were staged by Harun Farocki (Part 1), Carlos Bustamante (Part 2), Helke Sander (Part 3), Holger Meins (Part 4), Wolfgang Petersen (Part 5), Philip Werner Sauber (Part 6).

Über Holger Meins – Ein Versuch, unsere Sicht heute

Hartmut Jahn, Gerd Conradt

Holger Meins

Oskar Langenfeld. 12 Mal

Holger Meins

Oskar Langenfeld

Twelve short scenes of the life of an elderly homeless person, Oskar Langenfeld, in Berlin.

Wochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firma

Rainer Boldt, Lothar Schuster

Hartmut Bitomsky, Harun Farocki

Film by a student collective of the dffb.

Johnson & Co. und der Feldzug gegen die Armut

Hartmut Bitomsky

Peter Bauer, Ingrid Oppermann

Clearly influenced by Brecht and Jean-Marie Straub, criticizes the reduction of human relations to economic relations as well as the US imperialism in Vietnam.

Machen wir den Tegeler Weg zur Kochstrasse

Holger Meins, Gerd Conradt

Film announcing the November 4, 1968 demonstration and urging demonstrators to be prepared to fight.

Situationen

Johannes Beringer

Günter Peter Straschek, Gerd Conradt

Scenes from Berlin: Kids playing football, a man tries to light a fire in his stove, a film team sets up a shot in a park, students discuss politics.

Cocktail Molotov

Holger Meins

Instructions on how to make a Molotov Cocktail