In four programmes, the KunstFilmBiennale is showing works by artists living in Germany who explore new devices and paths within the medium of film and are not fazed by the strategies of the cinematic avant-garde of previous decades. They are familiar with Hans Richter, Maja Deren and Bill Viola, but the powerful image-producing machines of our present-day culture, with which the filmmaking generation of today mainly works, overshadow these figures as a source of inspiration or productive friction.