Films by Werner Bednarz

Germany 2009
by Dirk Szuszies, Karin Kaper

THE BRIG is an act of rebellion. The founders of The Living Theatre, Judith Malina and Julian Beck, were among the initiators New York’s first General Strike for Peace in May 1963. It follows that they were the ones to take up ex-marine Kenneth Brown’s manuscript and bring it to the stage in 1964. The viewer becomes a part of a claustrophobic world where there is no escape from the intrinsic violence. The Living Theatre, with their moving attack against a sacred institution like the Marines, bec

Germany 2009
by Irene Höfer

Being an artist means much more than following dogmas of art or being part of a mainstream interest or impressing people with shocking expressions. Being an artist is passion and necessity of bringing the own on a white canvas. Jonas Burgert is one of this artists who is driven to paint, he must create the atmosphere which he feels. He does it on a way which hasn’t been used on this manner before. He connects the influence of old masters with the freethinking attitude of the renaissance. The doc