LIEBE, EIFERSUCHT UND RACHE | LOVE, JEALOUSY AND REVENGE

“‘You know that every film has its own language…’ Brynntrup delves into the riddle of language, communication and desire through a cleverly amusing portrayal of a telephone call between a man and a woman.” – Karen Lund, Museum of Modern Art Department of Film, 1992 “The witty ‘Love, Jealousy and Revenge’ explores the mobile meanings of language in film with the help of sophisticated telecommunications; an aural/oral offering.” – Sarah Turner, Ian Rashid-Hygene and Hysteria Your Program, 1994 “Whether it be through a visual or verbal excerpt from his diaries, a cinematic album of (imagined?) former lovers, a matter-of-fact voiced-over curriculum vitae, or his manifold incarnations before the camera, Michael Brynntrup performs himself in a kind of drag. Dressed as Aunt Ida…he actually looks convincingly disguised. A distinctly queer impetus lies behind this construction of systems of identity, especially regarding the belief in scripted or imagistic self-representability.” – Alice Kuzniar, “Audacious Allegories: The Queer German Cinema,” Stanford University Press, 1999