Lutz Mommartz

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Lutz Mommartz (born March 6, 1934 in Erkelenz ) is a German film director (participation, direction, screenplay, camera, editing, music, producer, production management, recording manager).

Life

Mommartz moved to Düsseldorf with his parents in 1937 . From 1952 to 1975 he worked for the local city administration. Since 1967, when he said goodbye to painting, Mommartz began making 16mm films. In the same year he received a film award that was recognized worldwide at the international experimental film festival in Knocke-le-Zoute with his film Selbstschüsse . On October 1, 1975, he founded a film class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, department for art educators in Münster. In 1977 he received the Federal Film Prize in silver for As Was von Beckett and in 1978 for The Garden of Eden . In 1978 he took over the professorship for film at what is now the Art Academy in Münster . He has been working on handing over his archive since 2016.

Today Mommartz lives and works in Düsseldorf, from 2001 to 2011 also in Berlin.

Filmography

  • 1965: Egon Wolke (producer: Gustav Ehmck)
  • 1967: railroad
  • 1967: self-shots
  • 1967: the stairs
  • 1967: brand eggs
  • 1967: dance loop
  • 1967: above / below
  • 1967: the finger
  • 1968: Opposite ZWEILEINWANDKINO
  • 1968: Right / Left TWO-WALL CINEMA
  • 1968: 3 glasses
  • 1968: matriculation
  • 1968: way to the neighbor
  • 1969: overwhelmed
  • 1969: 400 m IFF
  • 1969: Social Sculpture (with Joseph Beuys )
  • 1970: Tenant solidarity
  • 1970: Chooses ADF
  • 1970: Age porn
  • 1970: Spanish crime thriller
  • 1971: inspection
  • 1971: The aggressive brown water in the professor's pipes
  • 1971: colored stripes
  • 1972: Monuments (with Jürgen Kuhfuß)
  • 1974: Fear on the Rhine
  • 1974: haircut
  • 1975: color stripes
  • 1975: The Just War 1525 (with Hartmut Kaminski and the Düsseldorf film group)
  • 1975: As if it were from Beckett
  • 1976: The Schiller
  • 1976: flapping wings
  • 1977: The Garden of Eden
  • 1978: More than two
  • 1979: Shadow cure
  • 1980: Tango through Germany
  • 1982: shooting
  • 1983: Everyone is a table, only I am a chair
  • 1983: Transit to Berlin (with Mama Woju)
  • 1985: Marble always stays cool
  • 1985: getting dressed
  • 1986: The Italian hunt
  • 1986: the last cigarette
  • 1987: Focus
  • 1987: Slow waltz
  • 1988: aurich
  • 1988: four little pieces
  • 1989: fear under the stars
  • 1990: Eddie

Videos

  • 1992: window picture
  • 1992: the dancer
  • 1993: shadow wall
  • 1996: Bergbach near Schrunz - Painting
  • 1996: window to the courtyard
  • 1997: A thousand shards - the big construction site
  • 1997: Digital compression
  • 1997: El periodo especial
  • 1997: Buckow
  • 1997: The man who burned Hitler
  • 1998: Jugendweihe 98
  • 1998: Cafe Buckow
  • 2003: Sonata Volume (Untitled)
  • 2007: Margret's film
  • 2010: black and white
  • 2010: Barcelona 1999, ten years later (aka I am Rembrand)
  • 2011: Small pieces
  • 2011: NOTHING
  • 2013: Mafia XU
  • 2017: DEPTHINESS - Spelled Hans Rombach
  • Working on the project instance amendment of the Basic Law

bibliography

  • 1979: "Frei - whatzu" ISBN 3-9800569-3-7
    addressed to d. Students on the occasion of d. Matriculation on October 17, 1979. Series of publications by the department for art educators Münster of the State Art Academy Düsseldorf, University of Fine Arts.
  • 2000: "The Authentic as Art" 3 volumes on linen 13 × 18 cm with 3146 (1846 color) still images.
    Volume 1–3 ISBN 3-89770-086-7
    Between the picture sequences, reviews and short own texts. A comprehensive insight into his work from 1964 to 1999 consisting of early recordings in his circle of friends with the 8-mm camera, his successes in artist films and underground cinema, his documentary work on exploring human boundaries - people in experimental situations and working with his students at the Art academy.
    The book can be purchased from the author or directly from the Walther König bookstore.
  • 2004: "text 2002/3" hardcover, ISBN 3-86516-425-0
    "text 2002/3" is a book that consists of mails and SMS - in the original wording without omissions or corrections. It was justified in four seamless columns to form a language fabric. So it is up to the reader to associate in the sea of ​​words or to search for the intimate story. The mail data is underlined, that of the SMS is not.
    The book is printed as an art object in an edition of 200 and can be purchased directly from the author.
  • 2006: "text 2003/6" Hardcover, ISBN 3-936363-41-2
    The continuation of the book text 2002/3 also consists of mails and SMS in the original wording without omissions or corrections. But unlike in this language fabric, text 2003/6 is completely hidden in the visual poem. Layout 18 columns per double page. Font Courier New 11.5 right-justified, spread with 4.5 pt and compressed with 3 pt line spacing that the letters slide into one another and overlap in half when printed (S 2). However, the screen does not show any overlap, just the lower halves. The printer makes this visible by cutting off the upper half of the letters so that the lower halves meet and result in a new font (S 3).
    The encrypted book "text 2003/6 MOMMARTZFILM 5" is put back on the Internet in an easily readable way. Participants with whom the publication has not been discussed remain anonymous.
    The book is printed as an art object in an edition of 200 and can be purchased directly from the author.
  • 2008: "Margret" hardcover, ISBN 978-3-939777-10-6
    Margret's letters August 1957 to March 1961, her death on August 16/17, 2006 (recorded with a video camera), and - instead of an in-between - excerpts their travel logs and past notes.
    The book is printed as an art object in an edition of 500 and can be purchased directly from the author or from the Steinmeier GmbH printing company, Reuthweg 29, 86720 Nördlingen.

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personal data
SURNAME Mommartz, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Erkelenz