Films by Benno Trautmann

Germany 2018, 75 min
by Antonia Lerch

I was looking for strange worlds in Berlin, in this big city, where I live since many years. Aimless I was drifting through unknown terrains, looking for something by chance. I met germans and foreigners, immigrants and refugees from different cultures. They told me their individual stories, which also concern global themes: War, escape, work, flat, hunger, illness, love and death.Stories telling about joy and sorrow, but also about dreams and hopes.With: Firas Alissa Alyounis, Andrea Müller, K

Germany 2010, 63 min
by Benno Trautmann

The topic: Destruction. The structure: Association of pictures, scenes, sounds and headwords of a fictitious MADMAN'S DICTIONARY, not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action. The main character: Homo sapiens, the pride of creation, master of disaster, exterminator and self-exterminator. The basic question: Why does homo sapiens destroy his living conditions? There is no answer to that question, but the question rotates in my brain, when I started making pictures and sounds