Peter Braatz

When David Lynch was making his film Blue Velvet, German filmmaker Peter Braatz was also on set, shooting documentary footage with a Super 8 film camera. Now, on Blue Velvet's 30th anniversary, Braatz presents his footage, along with still photographs, as a "meditation" on Lynch's work.

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Plunging into a netherworld of machines and humans, Steklarski Blues (2001), also known as Glazier Blues, transforms the noisy, steam-filled work of a glass factory in the town of Hrastnik in Slovenia into something resembling a steampunk-inflected, sci-fi dystopia that belongs to no particular moment in time.

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An attempt to analyze and explore the phenomenon of photography. Maja and Peter do so by interviewing a large number of world famous artists, mostly (or also) photographers, whose lives are deeply marked by their passion for still image.

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Documentary with and about Lee 'Scratch' Perry, the grand old man of reggae. In the spring of 1994, I filmed some of his live performances in Hamburg and Amsterdam. Afterwards, I visited him in Switzerland, where he has been living with his wife Mireille and their children for several years.

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Documentary film about a journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok.

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A travelogue through Eastern Germany immediately after the first free elections in 1990.

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A very surreal video shot behind the scenes during the production of Blue Velvet in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1985 by Peter Braatz.

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An experimental film based on an 18-minute version of Béla Bartók's composition of the same name. Bartók's one-act opera is about a young woman who is forced by three crooks to lure men into an ambush, where they are then robbed.

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Short film about a farmer.

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Interviews with members of the crew of David Lynch's 1986 film "Blue Velvet."

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A portrait of Peter Braatz, German-Slovenian documentary filmmaker and musician.

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When David Lynch was making his film Blue Velvet, German filmmaker Peter Braatz was also on set, shooting documentary footage with a Super 8 film camera. Now, on Blue Velvet's 30th anniversary, Braatz presents his footage, along with still photographs, as a "meditation" on Lynch's work.

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Plunging into a netherworld of machines and humans, Steklarski Blues (2001), also known as Glazier Blues, transforms the noisy, steam-filled work of a glass factory in the town of Hrastnik in Slovenia into something resembling a steampunk-inflected, sci-fi dystopia that belongs to no particular moment in time.

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Documentary film about a journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok.

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An experimental film based on an 18-minute version of Béla Bartók's composition of the same name. Bartók's one-act opera is about a young woman who is forced by three crooks to lure men into an ambush, where they are then robbed.

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Short film about a farmer.

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