Films by Peter Sempel

Germany 2021, 108 min
by Peter Sempel (SUNMUSICFILM.COM)

Jonas Mekas, and his world full with poetry, films, art, music, books, cooking, drinks, singing, with friends, extremely energetic, humorous, inspiring, supportive, and without compromise.  Filmed over several years with son Sebastian,— special guests, wonderful friends also at big auction for HarrySmith-library — , in Brooklyn, Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Kassel(documenta). And 2 beautiful memorial-events,  at St.MarksChurch, EastVillage, and Jonas´ hometown Birzai, bowing our heads, also with ho

Germany 2019, 86 min
by Peter Sempel (SUNMUSICFILM.COM)

From Zurich to the Ganges: A associative portrait of Dieter Meier, best known as the singer and lyricist of the Swiss duo YELLO. Dieter Meier – gambler, poet, writer, film-maker, photographer, bon vivant and of course the voice of Yello, founded at the end of the 1970s in Zurich and still today a music project full of expressivity and pleasure in experimentation. For more than 30 years, Peter Sempel and his camera accompanied the Swiss artist and his extreme energy and versatility. Be it in Hamb

2017, 108 min
by Peter Sempel (SUNMUSICFILM.COM)

A psychodocumentary music film about Bazon Brock, a fascinating philosopher and art and social critic, provocateur. Harald Falckenberg has called him a universal genius. In his Berlin gallery 'Denkerei' [Thinkery] with the 'Amt für Arbeit an unlösbaren Problemen und Maßnahmen der hohen Hand' [Office for Work on Unsolvable Problems and High-Handed Measures], his house in Wuppertal, in his garden, at appearances in museums, galleries, universities, the ZKM arts centre in Karlsruhe, Cabaret Voltai

Germany 2014, 98 min
by Peter Sempel (SUNMUSICFILM.COM)

Observations of a man who has always gone his own way in music and art: Peter Brötzmann. He's been on the road for more than 50 years, is described as mad by some and as the "Godfather of free jazz" by others. His improvisational musical horizon ranges from violent outbursts and delicate, dreamy fantasies, on saxophone, clarinet and tarogato, or Turkish pipe. Roughcut Peter Broetzmann (A Jazz-Odyssey, from Wuppertal to China) accompanies the musician to concerts in Hamburg, Warsaw, London, Remsc

2013, 98 min
by Peter Sempel (SUNMUSICFILM.COM)

SCENES and moments in the Life of Jonas Mekas, mainly between 2005-2012, some flashbacks; Memories, new media, reality, utopia...With his son Sebastian, and friends from the film-,poetry&artworld, Dante, a black panther, other animals and music,..poetic, dramatic, humourus,..., Jonas:"Keep singing and dancing, my friends!"MUSIC: Lithuanian Folksongs, Auguste Varkalis(piano),Matthias Schuster, Das Institut, BuergermeisterDerNacht, Abwaerts, Mozart, Jonas Mekas&Friends, Asmus Tietchens, Dirtbikes,

Germany 2010, 98 min
by Peter Sempel (SUNMUSICFILM.COM)

A personal film-collage aboutwith German painter Jonathan Meese and The Dictatorship Of Art. From old masters to young contemporary art, many animals and musics, also dance; a kaleidoscope, filmed in studios, galleries, artfairs, with beginners, students and stars of Art, (Daniel Richter, Neo Rauch, Baselitz, Bazon Brock,...), Kirchner, Goya, Degas..., from Hamburg, Berlin, YokohamaTriennale, MiamiBasel-Artfair, Everglades, NewYork, Zurich, India, Barcelona,... Phantasy, Energy, Highsociety and

Germany 2009, 5 min
by Peter Sempel (SUNMUSICFILM.COM)

Daniel Richter, German artist from Hamburg, receives the FinkenwerderArtAward; impressions without commentary.

Germany 2009, 30 min
by Peter Sempel (SUNMUSICFILM.COM)

Daniel Richter, German artist from Hamburg, painting new pictures for exhibition kunsthaus-hamburg, summer 2009, in his studio, Berlin, Auguststr., with his friend Jonathan Meese, and 2 giraffes and a lion. The film shows, without commentary, 30mins of 5 hours painting, their lightheartedness and cruelty, destructivity and creativity, swiftness of their hands and minds, musicality and humour.

Germany 2004, 59 min
by Peter Sempel (SUNMUSICFILM.COM)

Kazuo Ohno is a documentary about the 97year-old dancer Kazuo Ohno, the founder and living legend of the Butoh-dance. He still gives dancing-lessons at his studio in Yokohama. "Butoh" is the "step in the dark", inspired by the German Expressionist Dance. There are two other main characters beside Kazuo: Yoshito Ohno, his son who dances with him, speaks for him and organizes his belongings, a very big support. And as well Tanya Khabarowa, as a wonderful contrast, a young Russian Butohdancer from

2003, 95 min
by Peter Sempel (SUNMUSICFILM.COM)

Peter Sempel's second study of the legendary image impresario, film-maker Jonas Mekas. Images, interviews, readings and, most notably, generous excerpts from JM's own atmospheric archive.

Germany 2002, 111 min
by Peter Sempel (SUNMUSICFILM.COM)

1999, 94 min
by Peter Sempel (SUNMUSICFILM.COM)

Nina Hagen. A psychodocumentarymusicfilm.A sort of "direct cinema“-portrait as a collage.Moments and scenes in her life.Her singing from classical to punk, pop, chanson and indian folk and temple songs.Nina Hagen – today. Few archival footage for "flashbacks".Energy – Desire – Chaos – Peace.In front, on- and backstage, in private and public life – hardly a difference, like a rollercoaster.You see her with her family and some friends: Lemmy (Motörhead), George Clinton, Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chi

1994, 104 min
by Peter Sempel (SUNMUSICFILM.COM)

Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of independent U.S. movies; founder and director of the New York Anthology Film Archive.Peter Sempel, known for Dandy and Just Visiting This Planet (shown at the 13th and 15th Mostra Film Festival respectively), has chosen underground director, poet, and intellectual Jonas Mekas for subject of his most recent documentary Jonas in the Desert.In fact, Mek

Germany 1991, 103 min
by Peter Sempel (SUNMUSICFILM.COM)