Manfred Blank Movies

Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet.

A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political...

A portrait cut for television using takes not used for the film “Leuchtturm des Chaos“. According to Bühler, the film was considered...

This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.

A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besançon, France, on board a dilapidated...

Filmmaker Manfred Blank (director of the excellent Pharos of Chaos) interviews Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub at some length about...

The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.

1. A modern Bavarian brewer, Emanuel Holzbauer, faces a sales crisis and targets his competitors to save his brewery. 2. In 1567, Protestant...

Stuck in the German lands of “Yodelburg,” our hero Kidlat dreams of space and muses on humanity’s endless capacity for creativity,...

A behind the scenes film of Class Relations.

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

Explores the culture and lives of the Ainu people

Contribution from 1992 to the television magazine "Buchladen" (West 3): on the publication of a bilingual volume of poetry by the legendary Greek...

This short segment by Manfred Blank for the magazine Buchladen focuses on Luis Buñuel.

An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK

A segment from the 1992 TV magazine "Bookshop" (West 3): French sociologist Laurence Caillet chronicles the life of a Japanese woman who, born in a...

Short documentary vignettes and interviews revolving around cinephile life in Paris.

Before Your Eyes – Vietnam (1982) is an unconventional essay film by Harun Farocki that interrogates the visual and ideological legacy of the...

A woman meanders through the streets of Istanbul five years after the military coup. Something is amiss, and the air is filled with a strangeness...

Presentation of Giono's book