For the multimedia exhibition Tangenten I (Tangents I), Dammbeck and co-organizer, sculptor and painter Frieder Heinze had planned to collaborate on a film that would combine non-camera animation with 35mm footage of a train ride between the two Dresden districts of Radebeul and Pieschen. When the exhibition was banned in 1978, Heinze turned to other projects, but Dammbeck continued working on the film by himself. Metamorphoses I—the first experimental film ever to be shown publicly in East Germany—marks the filmic beginning of Dammbeck’s long-term art project the Herakles-Konzept (Hercules Concept).
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Lutz Dammbeck Director · Peter Pohler Cinematographer
First release November 2, 1978 · Produced in XG · Original title Metamorphosen I
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XG
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Original title
Metamorphosen I
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Germany · November 2, 1978
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No release date listed for United States.
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