Peter Braatz was born in 1959 in Solingen, Germany. He was the singer of German Punk-Band S.Y.P.H. Nowadays he works as a film-maker and lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia with his wife Maja Weiss and son August-Adrian.
When David Lynch was making his film Blue Velvet, German filmmaker Peter Braatz was also on set, shooting documentary footage with a Super 8 film camera. Now, on Blue Velvet's 30th anniversary, Braatz presents his footage, along with still photographs, as a "meditation" on Lynch's work.
Short film about a farmer.
Plunging into a netherworld of machines and humans, Steklarski Blues (2001), also known as Glazier Blues, transforms the noisy, steam-filled work of a glass factory in the town of Hrastnik in Slovenia into something resembling a steampunk-inflected, sci-fi dystopia that belongs to no particular moment in time.