This is probably a really fucking long shot, but for many, many years I've been trying to track down a copy of Jesus: Der Film from 1986. It's an experimental picture overseen by Michael Brynntrup, made up of a whole bunch of scenes all tackled by different directors. I'm working on something to do with it at the minute and so once again I'm trying to hunt a copy down. I know the "trailer," which to the best of my knowledge is a lengthy section lifted directly from the film, has been uploaded to Vimeo, and Jörg Buttgereit's segment is included as an extra on the Schramm blu ray, but that's as much as I've ever been able to see. Both of those excerpts are presented in those contexts in relatively high quality, which leads me to believe a copy of the film must exist somewhere, and must be in pretty good shape.
A gorgeous hardback book on the film does exist, and I received it in the post today. It has a whole bunch of stuff on the production and a load of correspondence between the various collaborators and has the complete script (which is also available online), or at least that's what I've been led to believe it includes. I haven't actually taken it out the cellophane yet because I have some other things to see to first and I know I'll do fuck all but salivate over every page of the thing for the next six months if I dare crack it now, but just looking at the cover has me palpitating. I desperately want to see the film, and have done ever since catching a reference to it in a magazine I was reading some time away back in the nineties. Has anyone ever found a bootleg online or anything like this? Does anyone have a copy?
Highly unlikely, I know, but then so are a whole load of things. Worth a shot, anyway.
