About the director
Christoph Schlingensief has been making movies since he was 8 years old and has been with colaborating
with Filmgalerie 451 for almost 20 years. 'Das deutsche Kettensägenmassaker'
was our first VHS-release! He has shot more than 20 movies, all of them are available on DVD.
Even though he is rather recognized for his theatre and art actions at the moment, his roots are in film. In a DVD Edition as complete as possible we also released (and partly produced) the smaller and less known films. This is what we will do in the future, too.
One of the highlights is the DVD with a long interview and early shorts by/ with Christoph Schlingensief. Don't miss!
African Twintowers
Freakstars 3000
Church of Fear
Quiz 3000
From the Hof-Film-Award Laudatio 2005:
"I like the Schlingensief with a really great anger at everything that seems celebratory and smells hypocritical: all sorts of hidden wishes, fears, dreams, aggressions going on in this society. When he doesn't hide or repress anything, when he makes the flowers of evil flourish. Schlingensief will – that's what I hope in any case – always be an outsicer. A follower of Dada and Surrealism, an Anarchist, playing in the league of Buñuel and Artaud, of Oskar Panizza, Otto Mühl and Jean Genet. This is an aesthetic of protest, not of affirmation." (Peter W. Jansen)
