Films by Christian Bau

Germany 2022, 8 min
by Christian Bau

During an art auction, at which Gerhard Richter's "Abstraktes Bild (H.M.)" is being offered for sale, a photo of a dead man appears on the livestream. A paranormal phenomenon?

Germany 2010, 58 min
by Christian Bau

This poetic documentary film links the fate of the New York artist Jimmy Ernst and his parents Max Ernst and Louise Straus on several narrative levels with the story of the print shop Augustin in Glueckstadt. 1935 - Jimmy's parents had to flee to Paris - the Augustin family take in the 15 year-old as an apprentice typesetter. He learns how to set foreign languages such as Chinese or Arabic as well as Runic characters and cuneiform script. Inspired by his work he develops a fascination for symbol

Germany 2010, 76 min
by Alexandra Gramatke, Barbara Metzlaff

VIOLINS FOR ST. PAULI tells the moving story of an elementary school class in the district of St. Pauli, one of the deprived neighbourhoods in the city of Hamburg. Thanks to the unique commitment of the musician Gino Romero-Ramirez, children begin playing the violin at the age of seven. It is a difficult instrument, but Ramirez is so inspiring, that his pupils keep playing with surprising zeal for three years. This requires a lot of teaching experience in addition to steady nerves, patience and

by Christian Bau

After the catastrophe of Fukushima a new term appears in the Japanese language: Genpatsu-Rikon, incalligraphy composed of the characters for ’atomic’ and ’divorce’.In 2011 the filmmaker Christian Bau travels to the east cost of Japan and tries to find out more aboutthe background for this word creation.What did he see?“I’ve seen everything”.“You saw nothing, nothing at all”.