Lutz Dammbeck

Actor

Director

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Lutz Dammbeck is a German filmmaker and media artist known for his thought-provoking documentaries and installations. Some of his notable works include "The Net" (2003) and "Overgames" (2015). Dammbeck's work often explores themes related to media, technology, and society. While specific awards may not be widely documented, his contributions to the world of documentary filmmaking have garnered critical acclaim and sparked important discussions within the industry.

Films on Sooner

  • Bruno & Bettina

    2018

    101 mins

    Documentary

    Masao Adachi, a well-known Japanese screenwriter and director, joined the Japanese Red Army in 1974.

  • Overgames

    2015

    164 mins

    Documentary

    A film about funny and serious games, therapies of re- and self-re-education as well as the history of ideas of the permanent revolution.

  • The Netz: SEEK II

    2009

    29 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    A film about the relationship between art and technology and the human desire to control chaos through technological means.

  • The Net_A Visit to 'Hakim Bey'

    2005

    35 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    Lutz Dammbeck talks with Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) about the T.A.Z., Ted Kaczynski, Islam, Marvin Minsky, Cusanus and natural philosophy.

  • The Net_GO TO TRIAL

    2004

    90 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    A montage of TV images of the trial of Ted Kaczynski, better known as the "Unabomber."

  • The Net

    2003

    121 mins

    Documentary, Independent

    What is the connection between computer technology, hippie culture, mathematics, terrorism, the research of consciousness in the 1950s and paranoia?

  • Master Game

    1998

    106 mins

    Documentary

    In the 1990s, Austria was rocked first by paint attacks on paintings and later by bomb attacks on galleries.

  • Duerer’s Heirs

    1996

    58 mins

    Documentary, Independent

    A portrait of a ‘German socialist art’ in the GDR up to the building of the wall in 1961.

  • Duke Ernest

    1993

    43 mins

    Animation

    The great adventure of little Duke Ernst – a powerful examination of power, exile and cultural alienation.

  • Age of the Gods

    1993

    92 mins

    Documentary, Independent

    How does a highly talented artist end up in the vicinity of a totalitarian regime? What responsibility does art bear in political systems?

  • The Cave of Hercules

    1990

    44 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    The story of Hercules is well-known: son of Zeus and Alcmene, hero and god, famous for his twelve labours.

  • The painter of the strange country …

    1988

    42 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    A portrait of the artists Cornelia Schleime, Hans-Hendrik Grimmling and Hans Scheib who left the GDR for West Berlin between 1984 and 1985.

  • GDR Experimental: REALFilm

    1986

    47 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    REALFilm is Lutz Dammbck's examination of film and filmmaking, a film in real time, a collage in space involving the audience.

  • GDR Experimental: First Leipzig Autumn Salon

    2006

    22 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    In a revolutionary act of artistic freedom, a group of artists occupied a trade fair building in Leipzig in 1984.

  • GDR Experimental: Heracles

    1984

    10 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    Together with Lutz Dammbeck, dancer Fine Kwiatkowski explores myths, political systems and their impact on society.

  • GDR Experimental: Homage to La Sarraz

    1981

    12 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    Sergei Eisenstein, Hans Richter and Luis Buñuel meet at La Sarraz Castle to explore new ways of independent filmmaking.

  • GDR Experimental: Metamorphosis 1

    1978

    6 mins

    Icons & Media Art

    Because the GDR authorities banned the exhibition, Lutz Dammbeck realized the basic idea independently as an experimental film.