Lutz Mommartz

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1934-03-06 (91 years old)

Deathday

2025-07-26

Place of Birth

Erkelenz, Germany

Lutz Mommartz

Biography

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 su...

Production

1967

Railroad

as Director

1968

1969

Social Sculpture

as Director

1967

Self Shots

as Director

1970

1996

1977

1971

1974

1967

Markeneier

as Director

1967

The Finger

as Director

1967

The Finger

as Writer

1993

Wall of Shadows

as Director

1993

1970

Old Age Porn

as Director

1970

Old Age Porn

as Writer

1967

The Stairs

as Director

1967

The Stairs

as Writer

1967

Danceloop

as Director

1967

Danceloop

as Writer

1967

Up / Down

as Director

1967

Up / Down

as Writer

1968

Immatrikulation

as Director

1968

1969

Overwhelmed

as Director

1987

Focus

as Director

1987

Focus

as Producer

1968

3 Glasses

as Director

1975

Die Schiller

as Director

1976

As if by Beckett

as Director

1985

Dress

as Director

1981

1970

2007

Margret’s Film

as Director

1976

1976

1976

As if by Beckett

as Camera Operator

1974

Haircut

as Director

1975

1975

Wing Flapping

as Director

1978

More Than Two

as Director

1975

Mambo

as Producer

1979

Schattenkur

as Director

1979

Eddie and Lutz

as Director

1972

Monuments

as Director

1971

Inspection

as Director

1970

1982

1968

1969

400 m IFF

as Director

1969

Wählt ADF

as Director

1969

Teenage Art

as Director

1967

Color Stripes

as Director

1983

1986

The Last Smoke

as Director

1987

Slow Waltz

as Director

1988

1989

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