Robert Bramkamp, born 1961, studied German philology and film studies in Munster. Since the mid-1980s, Bramkamp has made several unconventional films that blend documentary, essay, and feature film elements. Bramkamp also works as a lecturer for directing at Konrad Wolf film school. His first feature film, "Gelbe Sorte" (1987), tells the story of the fight of a young Westphalian farmer for his professional survival. Bramkamp cut this story of a slick subsidy fraud with images of the Chinese cultural revolution: "Nowadays, you have to withdraw trite failure from the grasp of concernment and to shift it geographically or historically until it becomes controversial again in a new set-up" (Bramkamp).

"Der Himmel der Helden" (1987) tells the story of the rescue of an US astronaut by a female Russian cosmonaut who takes him back from the moon while the real Apollo astronaut James Irving, a Christian fundamental, enters a stage in Bielefeld as a preacher. "Die Eroberung der Mitte" (1995) is a filmic dispute of the boom of self-help psychology.

The experimental film collage "Prüfstand 7" (2001) traces back the first "V2" rockets, the "miracle weapon" of the Nazis. Fictional parts of the film employ motives from Thomas Pynchon"s novel "Gravity"s Rainbow" – "Bramkamp"s film has a lot to offer: it is a stunning pool of images of the relation between high-tech and the Holocaust and between fear of dying, the desire for immortality, and longing for death. The film radically criticizes how history is presented in the cinema, on TV, and in the feuilleton but is also offers a profound conception of history itself." (Michael Girke).

Bramkamp"s film "Der Bootgott vom Seesportclub - Die 100 ME" (2005) tells the story of Enki (Steffen Scheumann), who got work through a job creation scheme and starts to discover godlike traits in himself, and was simultaneously set up as a network project on the internet, together with artist Susanne Weirich. Since April 2008, Robert Bramkamp is a professor for film and digital cinema at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. He envisions his work there as a research laboratory for the contemporary auteur movie.