GER 1974-1987, 152 min
THE IDEAL (Extended Version)
(GER 1974-1979, 28 min)
Score from 1973 > THE IDEAL (Ecstasy & Beauty)
PICTURES OF THE LOST WORD
(A 1975, 50 min)
Shots of idyllic landscapes and industrial scenery, muddy harbors, power lines, abandoned train stations or dilapidated factories.
"My cinema has to do with stretching the narrative until it kind of collapses. I'm interested in the point of a certain critical balance. When this critical balance is achieved the audience becomes very open. So I try to expand the narrative to that point, kind of collapsing the narrative.“
Foto: Klaus Wyborny, 1980
GER 2004-2015, 85 min
Poet Durs Grünbein and filmmaker Klaus Wyborny have come together in a project that is as exciting as it is challenging. To combine the poetic work of one with the cinematographic work of the other, to allow them to flow into each other, to unfold together. The word and the image, language and the world. SYRACUSE is neither an illustration of the one nor a commentary on the other, but a sensitive whole, an inventive back and forth and a poetic simultaneity. Caught up in history, the old witnesses, the ruins and the sunlight and street noise.
GER 1990-2001, 121 min
Having conquered Carthage, Greece and parts of Asia, Rome was beset by civil war. Mithridates, King of Pontus, seized the opportnity to stage an uprising, and invaded Greece to become a new Alexander. However, he was defeated twice by the Roman Proconsul Sulla. Meanwhile in Rome, a group hostile to Sulla had seized power: they confiscating his property and declared him a public enemy. Sulla had to abandon his glorious campaign and return to Italy to undo the wrongs committed against him and the Roman Constitution.
GER 1973, 70 min
Authentically 'New' German Cinema, and, simultaneously, an archaeology of narrative film itself, Wyborny's avant-garde landmark defines cinema as a 'nation' that has perversely acquired rulers, laws and hierarchies before it has even been physically mapped out.
GER 1982, 78 min
2084 - mankind is about to go for the stars. Humans with XY-chromosomes live in individual cells having no contact with each other. They are considered to be extremely dangerous for society. They are kept alive because some still believe, that they might harbour some original creativity.
To stay alive they have to produce a yearly "survival-permit-panorama" (SPP) that gets fed into the public media net ...
GER 2008, 11 min
"In January 2008, I met Werner by chance in Lisbon. The next day we went to Estoril together. From there we went to Cascais. Where an employee of the Cinematheque - I think she became the boss of it at some point, but I could be wrong - was showing beautiful-looking stills from Werner's films that she had made for a book about him. Which gave Werner a good opportunity to talk about the pictures and the films. Which I recorded sitting right next to him. All more or less casually and - in a single shot - completely without a plan ..." Klaus Wyborny
GER 1990, 94 min
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 his father and seduces his mother. Then he explores the changing world. The end finds him in a Polynesian village, where the chief bestows him with a girl of his age-class. A novel of adventure, a novel of love, also an oratory of some sort.
GER 1994, 80 min
It was in the early 70s. A girl I met at the Ganz café persuaded me to follow her to Egypt. She offered to pay for the trip if I accepted to fuck her at the summit of a few pyramids. At the time, I was trying to make new friends, and I figured this could help me inaugurate a real friendship.
The Ganz café no longer exists. The shack where the freaks used to gather has now been replaced by a spherical, postmodern building where one can buy flowers and oriental jewelry. This is what happens to the places that feelings abandon.
