Directing
Born March 6, 1934 · Erkelenz, Germany
For over five decades, experimental filmmaker Lutz Mommartz shaped the German film and art scene with a radically different understanding of film. Since the 1960s, he was active in Düsseldorf as a filmmaker and artist, and his work raised key questions about the authenticity of film and its relationship with the audience. He achieved his international breakthrough in 1967 at the Knokke Festival, when his film "Self-Shots" won an award. Parallel to his work as a municipal official, he was a motivator in the Düsseldorf art scene, for example, as co-founder of the legendary artists' bar Creamcheese, and was represented in numerous exhibitions such as documenta 4 (with his "Zweileinwandkino" (two-screen cinema) in 1968) and STRATEGY: GET ARTS (Edinburgh, 1970). He received the Silver Federal Film Prize in 1977 for "As if by Beckett" and in 1978 for "The Garden of Eden" Mommartz stood for "the other cinema," beyond the mainstream, with the goal of establishing film as a means of artistic expression. In the 1970s, as part of the Düsseldorf Film Group, he campaigned for the institutional recognition of film in art. In 1975, he was appointed the first professor of film at the University of Fine Arts Münster (then an outpost of the Düsseldorf Art Academy) and headed the film class until 1999. In 2020, the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf dedicated a retrospective to Mommartz's work. His works were most recently exhibited at the ZKM Karlsruhe and the Julia Stoschek Foundation. Lutz Mommartz is remembered as a pioneer of artistic film—uncomfortable, experimental, and ahead of his time.
Margret’s Film
2007
Window to The Yard
1996

Painting
1996
Wall of Shadows
1993
Fear Under the Stars
1989
Four Little Pieces
1988
Focus
1987
Slow Waltz
1987
The Last Smoke
1986
Marble Always Remains Cool
1985
Dress
1985
Every Human is A Table, Only I Am A Chair
1983
Transit to Berlin
1983
Filming Operation
1982
Tango Through Germany
1981
Schattenkur
1979
Eddie and Lutz
1979
More Than Two
1978

The Garden of Eden
1977

As if by Beckett
1976
Die Schiller
1975
The Fair War 1525
1975
Wing Flapping
1975
The Fear at the Rhein
1974

Haircut
1974
Film Group Düsseldorf - Sketch
1972
The City of Düsseldorf is Very Beautiful
1972
Monuments
1972

The Beautiful Sigmar
1971
Most of My Friends Now Live in Berlin
1971
Inspection
1971
The Aggressive Brown Water Inside the Tubes of the Professors
1971
Spanish Crime Story
1970

Old Age Porn
1970

The Breath of Sheep
1970
Solidarity of Tenents
1970
Görreskeller und JETZT - Köln
1970
Spaniards Meeting in Essen
1970

Social Sculpture
1969
Overwhelmed
1969
400 m IFF
1969
Wählt ADF
1969
Teenage Art
1969
Way to the Neighbour
1968
Immatrikulation
1968
3 Glasses
1968
Two-Screen Cinema
1968
Railroad
1967
Markeneier
1967
Self Shots
1967
The Finger
1967
The Stairs
1967
Danceloop
1967
Up / Down
1967
Color Stripes
1967
Otto Piene's Studio Party
1966