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24/06/02

Jürgen Brüning, Director

Jürgen Brüning had a frivolous upbringing at a river called Rhine in the neighbourhood of Cologne.His sociological studies had its realistic experiences in some squatted houses in Berlin. In 1983 he came in contact with the Cinema of Transgeression and met the icons of this movement:Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Ela Troyano and Tessa Hughes-Freeland. In 1986 Richard Kern‘s film „Fingered “with Lydia Lunch, which Brüning distributed in Germany, made a scandelous impression at the Berlin Film Festival and its following theatrical release at Brüning‘s cinema called Eiszeit. In 1988 Brüning moved to Buffalo, New York to focus on his own filmwork. He produced videos on Rosa von Praunheim, gays in Thailand and gay skinheads in Berlin. His collaboration with Bruce LaBruce started in 1990 and has flourished into the conception of four films.
Nan Goldin went on a trip with him in 1992 to do stills for his documentation ”Maybe I Can Give You Sex?“. OKI Hiroyuki,a young Japanese director worked with him on a film portraying young adult men in Kochi,Japan. Explicit imagery are consistent in Brünings'work. In 1996 he made his first commercial porn film „Bulging Bavarians“.The porn label „Cazzo“, which he founded in 1996 became soon an important part of the contemporary pop culture. With three porn actors he realised a feature film called „West Fucks East “. Films as director 1981 Zu Gast in New York (short film) 1984 Nr.4 (short film) 1990 What Is The Relationship Between Rosa von Praunheim And The Male Strippers In San Francisco? (short documentary video,with Mark Goldstein) 1992 Maybe I Can Give You Sex? (documentary video, with Rune Layumas) 1994 Er hat eine Glatze und ist Rassist, er ist schwul und ein Faschist (documentary video) Second Prize Dresden Film Festival 1995 1995 Wild Palms 1997 Pralle Lederhosen (porn) 1998 Blut (experimental video) 1998 Stallburschen (porn) 1999 Nur für Jungs (porn) 1999 Sportsfreunde (porn) 2001 Wilde Ferien (porn) 2001 West fickt Ost (feature video)

Statement: 3 kleine lustige Porträts dreier schwuler Berliner Filmemacher, die ausser ihrem Schwulsein nichts anderes im Kopf haben. Ihre visuellen Werke sind beeinflußt von van Gogh, Dali und Andy Warhol. Sabine Christiansen gibt ihnen gerne gute Ratschläge.

Films as director:
1981 Zu Gast in New York (short film)
1984 Nr.4 (short film)
1990 What Is The Relationship Between Rosa von Praunheim And The Male Strippers In San Francisco?
(short documentary video,with Mark Goldstein)
1992 Maybe I Can Give You Sex?
(documentary video, with Rune Layumas)
1994 Er hat eine Glatze und ist Rassist, er ist schwul und ein Faschist
(documentary video) Second Prize Dresden Film Festival 1995
1995 Wild Palms
1997 Pralle Lederhosen (porn)
1998 Blut (experimental video)
1998 Stallburschen (porn)
1999 Nur für Jungs (porn)
1999 Sportsfreunde (porn)
2001 Wilde Ferien (porn)
2001 West fickt Ost (feature video)

Erstellt: 05-05-04
Letzte Änderung: 24-06-02