Feature Films

TRANZANIA.LIVING.ROOM
(2010)

Filmessay. An atmospheric journey through interspaces of imagination - Tanzania/Germany. Music by Nest (Otto A. Totland & Huw Roberts).

DER TAG
(2008)

Filmessay. A cinematic meditation on the immediate near to death. Soundtrack by FM Einheit.

SANTOS - HEROIC DEEDS, NO ONE NEEDS
(2005)

A surreal Becker-Schueppel-Streich cooperation. The true story of the last hero. Starring Ben Becker. Soundtrack Bob Ruttmann.

THE PLACE
(1997)

Filmessay. The film presents the construction site "Potsdamer Platz/Berlin" as a colossal technical production, and meditates on the other hand on the absence of "the other place". Soundtrack by FM Einheit.

FROZEN STORIES
(1994)

Filmessay on the journey of political prisoners from East-Germany to the Gulags in Siberia. Soundtrack by Blixa Bargeld.

THE ROAD, TO GOD KNOWS WHERE
(1990)

Documentary by Uli M Schueppel on NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS touring through North America 89. Starring: Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Mick Harvey, Kid Congo Powers, Thomas Wydler and Roland Wolf(✝).

Elektrokohle (Off Ways)
(2009)

Documentary about the first concert of German cult-band EINSTUERZENDE NEUBAUTEN in East-Berlin on December 21st, 1989.

BERLIN SONG
(2007)

A documentary on Berlins urban folk-underground and at the same time an atmospheric jouney into the myth that is Berlin. Starring Kat Frankie, Einar Stenseng, Fancie, Crazy for Jane, Tommy Simmatupang and Nathan Vanderpool.

PLANET ALEX
(2001)

Fiction. Berlin Alexanderplatz 2000. Starring Baki Davrak, Marie Zielcke, Nadeshda Brennicke, Marusha, Ben Becker and Birol Uenel.

SID & NANCY / EX & POP
(1996)

The documentary follows the intense and at times chaotic genesis of a theatre piece in a Berlin underground-club. Starring Ben Becker, Meret Becker, Alexander Hacke, Otto Sander and Barbara Philipp.

FATHERLAND
(1992)

Fiction. The tragic and somehow surreal journey of an Algerian, kidnapping his child. Starring Olivier Picot, Miroslav Baka, Myriam Abbas, Alexander Hacke, Christin König. Soundtrack by Mick Harvey and Alexander Hacke.

NIHIL oder ALLE ZEIT DER WELT
(1988)

Fiction. A expressiv nightmare out of WestBerlin in the 80th. Starring Blixa Bargeld, Olivier Picot, Kai and Friedrich Von Sinnen. Musicscore by Alexander Hacke.

Music

GODMAN
(2008)

Music video for the song Godman by Islandic band Singapore Sling.

THE GUN
(1990)

Music video for the song The Gun by Crime & The City Solution

LOST IN MUSIC
(1988)

Documentary expressions of the last night, and respectively the last morning of the "Risiko", the most legendary club of West-Berlin in the 80's. Edited to the Anita Lane & Mick Harvey -version of "Lost in Music".

HANK WILLIAMS SAID IT BEST
(2005)

Music video for the song Hank Williams Said It Best by Mick Harvey.

CITY OF REFUGE
(1989)

Music video on the song "You Better Run" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.based on documentary footage.

More

THE SONG
(1991/2004)

The short-documentary follows the recording process in the legendary Hansa-Studios, Berlin of the song "Until The End Of The World" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - from the beginning to the end.

BERLINALE - OPENER / TRAILER
(2002-2009)

Since 2002 Uli M Schueppel created in cooperation with Das Werk,Berlin the official Opener/Trailer animation for the International Filmfestival Berlin. Music by Xaver Naudascher and Johannes Koeniger.

A PRIORI
(1990)

Expressionistic short-film by Susan Turcot & Uli M Schueppel. Starring Angela mettbach. Music by Alexander Hacke.

IM PLATZ / INSIDE THE PLACE
(1997)

Remix of the full-length film "Der Platz / The Place". Over the originalsound-composition of FM Einheit is the text "On the Terrace at the Pole", a poem about the Potsdamer Platz by the German expressionist poet Paul Zech from 1913, spoken by Otto Sander.

DELPHI - OPENER / TRAILER
(2003)

Animated Trailer/Opener for the German film distribution company "Delphi" since 2003, created by Uli M Schueppel. Music by Alexander Hacke.