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Nashorn im Galopp (Rhino Full Throttle) is a short film by Erik Schmitt that follows Bruno on an emotional journey through the city of Berlin. The film uses stop motion, pixilation and plays with perspectives in a way that will mess with your mind a little. Bruno is making his way through the city searching for […]
Sergej Hein came up with the idea for his Berlin Block Tetris animation walking through the streets of East Berlin when it struck him that the square blocks of the Plattenbauten (Soviet-era prefabricated concrete buildings) looked like Tetris pieces. Hein grew up in Riga but moved to East Berlin and lived in what he refers […]
Berlin Airlift: The Story of a Great Achievement is a film produced by the Central Office of Information (a British Government agency) to document the extraordinary events of 1948 and 1949 when thousands of tonnes of supplies were flown into West Berlin, thwarting Soviet plans to starve the city. If you were out and about […]
Berlin Dynamic is an exceptional timelapse video from Matthias Makarinus made up of over 50,000 photos shot between May 2010 and September 2011. I never get tired of watching this video, which was the first of Matthias Makarinus’ creations I saw, though three others have made it onto the blog before it. There are some […]
In Visualtraveling – East Meets West Berlin, Berlin-based pro skater Michael Mackrodt takes a journey from East to West Berlin on a skateboard. There was a time (in a previous life) when I rarely went anywhere without my skateboard but I couldn’t even dream of doing some of the tricks that Michael Mackrodt casually pops […]
Test for the West: Berlin is a Silver Bear-winning documentary by Franz Baake that deals with the history of Berlin from the 1920s to 1962, focusing on the post-war events that lead to the Cold War. The usual milestones are discussed: the division of Berlin; the Berlin Blockade; the 1953 workers’ uprising and the construction […]
Released last month by Chronos Media GmbH to coincide with events to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Berlin, Spirit of Berlin is a collection of colour HD footage of Berlin in July 1945. There is something about the use of colour images that makes the utter devastation caused by a […]
Um 8 Uhr kommen die Schweine wieder (At 8 o’clock the pigs come back) is a silent film from Hans Totter, showing staff at the Strandbad Wannsee in Berlin cleaning in preparation for the first guests of the day to arrive. Strandbad Wannsee is a lakeside beach in Steglitz-Zehlendorf on the Western outskirts of the city […]
No Angel – A Life of Marlene Dietrich is a 1996 documentary of the life of singer and actress Marlene Dietrich, who was born in Berlin, directed by Chris Hunt and narrated by Melvyn Bragg. The only copy of the documentary I have been able to find has some quality issues (it jumps at times) […]
The History Channel documentary Night of the Long Knives covers the events that took place over the space of 48 hours in 1934 when Hitler murdered many prominent SA and Nazi Party members that he perceived as a threat. The Night of the Long Knives is often referred to as the Röhm-Putsch because the SA […]
