Films by Angela Zumpe

Germany 2023, 60 min
by Angela Zumpe

When it comes to art, opinions differ. Value judgments are quickly made. A painter is seen as a great talent or as completely overrated – and his market value is accordingly. The value judgments of others often cause him to oscillate between the extremes. An artist's life offers room for both hype and average. A photographer and a filmmaker meet again after their orderly professional lives and take stock of their lives as artists. They interview their former fellow students, who studied at the W

Germany 2020, 45 min
by Angela Zumpe

March 2020, date of the first shutdown in Germany.Back from New York all travel opportunities were cancelt.I start conversations via Skype or Zoom with friends and colleagues around the world. With some I have been out of touch for decades. Yet, while the world is on hold, we sit across from each other - familiar, as if we were in the next room. We have similar questions: How did the pandemic change our lives and the urban life around the globe? How do we prepare for a restart?I also ask them to

2017, 84 min
by Angela Zumpe

The pastor’s house should contribute to improve the state and society. That's how the reformers had imagined it. The parishioner’s expectations of a pastor’s daughter in the 1960’s were simple: She aught to be less cheeky than her girlfriends, less funny and less selfish. Tensions were inevitable. The filmmaker Angela Zumpe, who grew up in the rectory, composes a mosaic of film fragments, old photos, her father’s Super 8mm films, christian paintings, all guided by the search of her protagonists

Germany 2013, 16 min
by Angela Zumpe

The filmmaker Angela Zumpe studied at NYU in 1981 and shared an apartment with Madison Smartt Bell, an upcoming writer. Thirty years later, she returns to New York. It is a trip in the past. Williamsburg at that time was a run down neighborhood. She meets her friends: Lisa is a professor for Gender Studies, Madisons novel "Waiting for the End of the World“ came out as a vision of 9/11. Also her big love David appears out of the mist of the past. Together, they explored discos, clubs and artist

Germany 2012, 16 min
by Angela Zumpe

Walking down the streets of Williamsburg Brooklyn today with hipsters, bodegas, corporate stores, dive bars, cabs, families etc, its almost hard to believe that Williamsburg was once a place with the burning trash cans and abandoned buildings. Most of the old Hispanic population has long since been forced out, the bohemians moved in. In 1981 the filmmaker Angela Zumpe shared an appartement with her roommate Madison Smartt Bell in Williamsburg, who became a wellknown writer for fiction in the 90i

Germany 2010, 80 min
by Angela Zumpe

West Berlin, Lankwitz. In May 1968, my 21-year-old brother Reinhard announced to my father, my mother and myself that within a few days he would be moving over to the GDR and applying for East German citizenship. Contacts were broken off. My brother committed suicide in January of 1969, on a sunday morning, while my father, a Berlin minister, read the sermon to his community. The film is a search for traces - in the time between reception camp and his death8 months later, for possible stations o

Germany 2007, 20 min
by Angela Zumpe

“Whispering Game” is about a mother-daughter relationship, based on notebooks compiled by the artist’s mother about family events starting in post-War Germany. ( Angela Zumpe )