Black Garden

1 - The Murder Mystery (1987/92)
2 - Blicklust (1992)
3 - Party (1995)
4 - Macumba (1995)
5 - Korridor (1998)
6 - Organics (1998/99)

Even though the six films function perfectly well as individual works, I always had the feeling
of filming a single work. The source of inspiration was much of the historical Roman literature I read.
From this sprang the motivation for the sombre-sexual treatment of the pumping-screen body portrayals.
In the end we are all living corpses and very soon dead again.

(Dietmar Brehm)


The moods of his films resemble an atmosphere between the dream and trauma. Brehm treats the dream as a source of strategies for association, similar to the secondary process to which according to Freud all the workings of the unconcious are subject. The "night of the world" is the staggering subject. Dietmar Brehm - a master of the grammar of a non-conceptual language.

(43. Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar&Animationsfilm 2000)