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Michael Brynntrup presenting:

The Deathstrip - A German Film (9:30 min., 1995, 16mm, color); All You Can Eat (5:30 min., 1993, 16mm, color, sound; Sudden and Unexpected - A Déjà-Revue (29 Min., 1993, 16mm, b&w +color, sound); Cain and Abel - A Moral, (10 Min., 1994, 16mm , color , sound); Loverfilm - An Uncontrolled Dispersion Of Information (21:30 Min., 1996, 16mm, color, sound); NY (Walk, Don't Walk) (4 Min., 1999, 35mm, color , stereo)

The Deathstrip - A German Film: The desolate stretch of land on an overgrown graveyard: on June 17th, 1983 a main character crosses the dead no-man's land, - an incident. Ten years later: on October 3rd, 1993, - an inspection. All You Can Eat: using found footage from the early 70s porn films, Brynntrup creates a humorous and titillating montage of some of the wildest, orgasmic, facial expressions ever composed to a mellow, easy listening sound track and asks, "How graphic does an image have to be before it comes pornographic?" Sudden and Unexpected - A Déjà-Revue: this time-loop film ponders death as freedom. Udo Kier shuts a door after saying goodbye to the camera, signalling the abrupt end to a maze-like plot which loops around itself, so that the order of events remains opaque (we see the same event from three different perspectives but they seem to occur sequentially). Cain and Abel - A Moral: What hast thou done? - The voice of my brother's blood is crying to you from the ground. We are shown how God sows the seeds of discord and divides mankind into good and evil. A queerly provocative retelling of the Bible story about a man's bloodlust for his brother. Loverfilm - An Uncontrolled Dispersion Of Information: Brynntrup tantalizes us with his diaristic account of his many lovers. What seems at first to be an extended exercise in ego, gradually becomes a powerful social record of gay life in the years spanning gay liberation and the aids-crisis. NY (Walk, Don't Walk): is a musical stroll along Christopher Street.

Visit his web page @  http://www.brynntrup.de