Films by Claudia von Alemann

Germany 2014, 92 min
by Claudia von Alemann

A feature length documentary filmessay about the late photographer Abisag Tüllmann (1935 – 1996) and a moving portrait of a life-long friendship. Abisag Tüllmann was one of the most significant photographers in Germany during the second half of the 20th century. Since the late 1950s her pictures were shown in all major papers and magazines, but also in books and exhibitions. They provided an interpretation of the present and shaped the collective memory of the German and international public. Abisag focused upon politic events and on conditions of everyday life. She photographed not only the protagonists of the German student´s rebellion, the women´s movement and seminal artists of the 60s and 70s. She travelled and worked also in Algeria, Israel, Rhodesia / Zimbabwe, South Africa, India, Japan and all over Europe. In addition to her photojournalistic work she was best known for her theatre photography commissioned by renowned directors such as Claus Peymann, Luc Bondy, Ruth Berghaus, Andrea Breth, Einar Schleef, Peter Stein, George Tabori und Robert Wilson a. o.With excerpts of films by Claudia von Alemann, Helke Sander, Alexander Kluge, Ulrich Schamoni, Carola Benninghoven and more than 500 black and white motives photographed by Abisag in her hometown Frankfurt am Main and abroad (Europe, Israel, Asia, North- and South-Africa).

Germany 1992, 30 min
by Claudia von Alemann

Filmmaker Claudia von Alemann returns to the place of her early childhood memories: her parents' home in Seebach/Thuringia, from which the family fled after the war. The diary of her mother and old photographs lead her into the past. We learn about a successful harvest in 1942, about the years of the war, the approach of the Russian troops and her grandmother's flight in November 1945. The filmmaker's mother followed a month later and took the children with her. But Claudia von Alemann not only contemplates the past, she also includes the present. After the war, her parents house was turned into a children's' home. The story of past losses and the childrens' dreams and hopes for the future complement each other.

1968, 42 min
by Claudia von Alemann, Reinhold E. Thiel

Turn of the year 1967/68: the 4th International Experimental Film Festival is taking place at the Belgian seaside resort of Knokke. In addition to clips from the films, Claudia von Alemann and Reinold E. Thiel’s documentary above all shows the parallel events, the spontaneous performances, happenings and protest actions that took place there. They include the works of Harun Farocki, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Shirley Clarke, Holger Meins, Gustav Lamche, Armand Gatti and Mauricio Kagel, as well as of students from the Ulm School of Design, the DFFB and American underground filmmakers. The film captures the electrifying and inspiring atmosphere that made the festival legendary and provided a decisive impetus for independent film in Europe.The film is being shown in a new digital restoration by the Arsenal Film Institute. Source of Synopsis