Klaus Wyborny
Klaus Wyborny (b.June 5, 1945 in Bittkau bei Magdeburg; lives and works in Hamburg) is a German filmmaker, producer, film director, actor, cameraman and screenwriter, known for his experimental films. Klaus Wyborny studied from 1963 to 1970 Theoretical Physics at the University of Hamburg and the Yeshiva University in New York City. Wyborny was co-founder in 1968, with Hellmuth Costard, Thomas Struck, Werner Nekes, Helmut Herbst, Werner Grassmann, and others, of the Hamburger Filmmacher Cooperative, which took the New American Cinema as an example and would develop an European version of American underground cinema. He worked for the literary journals BOA VISTA and Henry, and was co-founder of the 'Hamburger Filmgespräche'. Klaus Wyborny participated with others in the Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 with Das abenteuerliche, aber glücklose Leben des William Parmagino, Dallas Texas - After the Goldrush, Chimney Piece and A Crowd in the Face, and Percy McPhee in the section Film review: New European Cinema on the Documenta 6 (1977). Wyborny participated in 1975, 1980-1982, 1986, 1992 and 1994 at the International Forum of New Cinema in Berlin. He was also several times (2002, 2005, 2010) represented at the Viennale Festival in Vienna. In 2003 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe.
Home Movies 1971-81
The Holy Bunch
Burning Beds
One Brachet Close Brachet
Four Shadows
The Birth of a Nation
(Narrator)
Diwan
The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson
The Critical Mass
(Himself)
Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures
(Self)
A Crowd in the Face
Im KZ
Null-Null-Zero
Bumps. Shake. Two Hamburgers
Tropiafric - Grüße aus der Wildnis
((cameo))
Elementary Filmhistory
(Director)
Richard
(Director)
Studies for the Decay of the West
(Director)
The Birth of a Nation
(Director)
Begegnung mit Werner Schroeter
(Director)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
(Second Unit)
Abandoned; Lost; Lonely, Cold (Song of the Earth Part 3)
(Director)
Durs Grünbein liest die dritte Satire des Juvenal
(Director)
At the Edge of Darkness (Song of the Earth Part 1)
(Director)
Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2)
(Director)
From the Age of Recklessness (Song of the Earth Part 4)
(Director)
Grace, Things (Song of the Earth Part 5)
(Director)
The Scenic Sacrifice
(Director)
6 Small Pieces of Film
(Director)
Unreachable Homeless - Sonata on Film
(Director)
Potpourri from "East of No West"
(Director)
Valiantly Towards the Waves
(Director)
4 Rural Sketches
(Director)
The Ideal: Ecstasy & Beauty
(Director)
Flight from SF to NYC
(Director)
Window Film
(Director)
Dallas Texas / After the Goldrush
(Director)
Housefilm
(Director)
Pictures of the Lost Word
(Director)
A Crowd in the Face
(Director)
Home Sweet Home
(Director)
Up to the Stars
(Director)
Chimney Piece
(Director)
The Adventurous but Luckless Life of William Parmagino
(Director)
The Greatest Crime of All Time
(Director)
Three Days with Janine, Three Days with John
(Director)
Im KZ
(Director)
Thorium 232
(Director)
The Birth of a Nation
(Writer)
Der Ort der Handlung
(Director)
Der Ort der Handlung
(Writer)
Der Ort der Handlung
(Producer)
Studies for the Decay of the West
(Editor)
The Open Universe
(Director)
Syrakus
(Director)
Syrakus
(Editor)
The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson
(Writer)
Programmhinweise
(Sound)
Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
(Director)
Britain’s Glory
(Director)
Sulla
(Director)
Sulla
(Director of Photography)
Sulla
(Editor)
Sulla
(Writer)
Hommage an Ludwig van Beethoven
(Director)
The Blanket of Life
(Director)
Histoire du cinema
(Director)
Syntax
(Director)
Bartleby
(Director)
Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Schlachtfeld
(Director)
2084
(Director)
3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein
(Director)
D’Annunzio’s Cave
(Director of Photography)
The Birth of a Nation
(Director of Photography)
Der Ort der Handlung
(Director of Photography)
Studies for the Decay of the West
(Director of Photography)
Syrakus
(Director of Photography)
Syrakus
(Writer)
Britain’s Glory
(Editor)
Britain’s Glory
(Director of Photography)
The Light of the World
(Writer)
The Light of the World
(Director of Photography)
The Light of the World
(Producer)
The Light of the World
(Editor)
Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
(Writer)
Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
(Producer)
Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
(Editor)
Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
(Director of Photography)
Studies for the Decay of the West
(Writer)
Studies for the Decay of the West
(Original Music Composer)
The Last Year
(Director)
The Haunted Screen
(Director)
The Light of the World
(Director)
The Narthex-Mosaics of San Marco in Venice
(Director)
Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)
(Director)
Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)
(Writer)
Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)
(Producer)
Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)
(Cinematography)
Percy McPhee - Agent des Grauens (6. + 7. Folge)
(Editor)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Ein Leben für die Musik
(Director)
Going to Stuttgart
(Director)
Der Markt von Ringköbing
(Director)
Out of New York
(Director)
Kubla Khan
(Sound)
Prince and Delusion
(Writer)
Null-Null-Zero
(Assistant Director)
Null-Null-Zero
(Writer)
Bumps. Shake. Two Hamburgers
(Director of Photography)
Thorium 232
(Writer)
Gnade und Dinge. 11 Stücke auf Film
(Director)