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. Ab

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

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