Films by Thomas Kutschker

2023, 11 min
by Thomas Kutschker

'here' is a science fiction short film, a snapshot from a post-catastrophic future with flashbacks to our current present.The events that led to this devastation are just as much in the dark as the causes for the memory lapses of the protagonist of unknown gender. With the help of his questions, one can re-/construct versions of a story and possible incidents.'here' is a photographic panorama film. In multi-layered images, the film shows the effects of the impending climate catastrophe and deals with the non-linearity of our thoughts and memories.

Germany 2018, 84 min
by Martin Baer, Claus Wischmann

Who owns the image(s) of the world? We take more photographs in a single day than we did in the entire twentieth century. Our world transforms itself into its own image. It would be illegal if we were to show you everything we see around us. Because every single image is owned by someone.Copyright-owners of objects, buildings, trademarks and even landscapes claim money for the depiction of their property. The real moneymaker is the wealth of pictures of us all. Who do the pictures of ourselves and of our world belong to?

Germany 2009, 92 min
by Rainer Hoffmann, Anne Linsel

The dance performance KONTAKTHOF bears the unmistakable signature of Pina Bausch: it deals with forms of human contact, the encounters between the sexes, and the search for love and tenderness with all the attendant anxieties, yearnings and doubts. It is about feelings, which pose a big challenge, particularly for young people.For almost a year teenagers from over eleven schools in Wuppertal went on an emotional journey. Every Saturday, 40 students, aged between 14 to 18 years, rehearsed under the direction of the Bausch-dancers Jo-Ann Endicott and Bénédicte Billiet and under the intense super-vision of PinaBausch herself. The film DANCING DREAMS by Anne Linsel and Rainer Hoffmann accompanies the rehearsal process culminating in the opening night. We watch the teenagers making their first, still clumsy attempts to transform the subjects of the dance performance into motion and choreography and to develop an own, individual body expression. They discover themselves in a process, which leads great personal growth. Gentle and shy but also aggressive contacts condensate to individual experiences that many of the teenagers encounter for the first time on stage.Pina Bausch has always encouraged the young dancers "to be themselves." It is behind their own movements, fears, feelings and desires that their personal Dancing Dreams become visible. At the end each of them has not only grown up, but above all has become more self-confident, independent and more sceptical facing prejudices. Employing an unusual adjacency, the film introduces the young protagonists in sensitive ways, it culminates in drawing a portrait of an entire generation.Pina Bausch died on June 30th, 2009. "Dancing Dreams - Teenagers Perform "Kontakthof" by PinaBausch" shows the last motion pictures and the last interview with the world-famous dancer and choreographer.

Germany 2009
by Ingo Rudloff

Brothers Bernard and François Baschet (born in 1917 and 1920, respectively) have been two of the pre-eminent pioneers in building experimental musical instruments and creating sound sculptures. After working together in a symbiotic relationship for decades, they parted ways professionally in the mid-1970s to pursue their own individual artistic aspirations. The film follows several years in the lives of the two brothers, documenting the musical and artistic marks they have left throughout the world.

Germany 2008
by Ingo Rudloff

Touch the sound of Baschet instruments during performance and manufacturing.