(brand means fire)

brandfilme is a free media platform  for political and artistic films  and was founded in the wake of the release of the film trilogy BRAND(Fire) in 2018.

On filmmaking: "I think that this administrative, conservative and profit-oriented thinking basically destroys all areas of life. There are certainly moments when you can fit into existing orders without loss, but there are also moments when you have to clearly reject it. We should definitely preserve this freedom. But if one gives it up, then one should not make films, because then one actually has nothing to say".
Ulrike Ottinger, workshop talk in Filmbulletin 4/96

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It is also about struggling for the maintenance of free activist and autonomous approaches to the production itself, e.g. in the way time and resources go into the making of the films in the daily practice of life. It is about a freedom in filmmaking that is worth fighting for and that arises from daily confrontation. Connected to the history of video art, originally rooted in the critique of the mass medium television, essayiytic films are created.