Christine Noll Brinckmann
- Die Urszene (The Primal Scene), 1981
born 1937 in China
In 1949 the family returned to Germany. She attended Bonn, Berlin, and Frankfurt universities, where she studied English and American literature and classical philology.
1967-68 she received her teacher's training and in 1974 she received her Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Frankfurt.
In 1979 she began to make experimental films during an ACLS scholarship and affiliation with NYU as a visiting scholar. Her films have been shown at many international experimental film festivals.
From 1989 to 2002 she was tenured professor at the University of Zurich, where she founded the film studies department.
She has published widely on film history, narratology, Hollywoodfilms, American documentarism, experimental film aesthetics, feminist issues and on film colours.
In 1997 the Chronos Verlag in Zurich publishes "Die anthropomorphe Kamera und andere Schriften zur filmischen Narration", a book with texts by Noll Brinckmann from two decades.
In 2008 "The Primal Scene. Christine Noll Brinckmann. Films and Texts" is published by edition arsenal experimental and features a DVD and texts by Stan Brakhage, Katharina Sykora and Dorothee Wenner among others.
Today Christine Noll Brinckmann lives in Berlin.
in distribution
Empathie und panische Angst(Empathy and Panic Fear), 1989
Stief, 1988
Der Fater (The Father), 1986
Polstermöbel im Grünen (Upholstered Furniture on the Grass), 1984
Ein halbes Leben (Half a Life), 1983
Grünspan (Verdigris), 1982
Dress Rehearsal and Karola 2, 1981
