Manfred Blank Movies

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

Short documentary vignettes and interviews revolving around cinephile life in Paris.

A woman meanders through the streets of Istanbul five years after the military coup. Something is amiss, and the air is filled with a strangeness...

The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.

A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besançon, France, on board a dilapidated...

An unconventional essay film that interrogates the visual and ideological legacy of the Vietnam War. Blending staged scenes, archival footage,...

Stuck in the German lands of “Yodelburg,” our hero Kidlat dreams of space and muses on humanity’s endless capacity for creativity,...

Sunrise is an educational “tips film” that analyzes F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. Through selected excerpts and...

A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political...

A documentary about the last Turkish shadow players and the German orientalist Hellmut Ritter

Contribution from 1992 to the television magazine "Buchladen" (West 3): on the publication of a bilingual volume of poetry by the legendary Greek...

An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK

Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime,...

Filmmaker Manfred Blank (director of the excellent Pharos of Chaos) interviews Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub at some length about...

This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.

A behind the scenes film of Class Relations.

This short segment by Manfred Blank for the magazine Buchladen focuses on Luis Buñuel.

Presentation of Giono's book

Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet.

Presentation of Marguerite Yourcenar's book about the famous Loire water castle Chenonceau as the "Castle of Women"