Georg Brintrup had already made several underground films between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s before he started his studies in journalism, the history of art and the Romance languages at the University of Münster.
In 1979 he made his first film essay for television Putting Things Straight, based on a polemic pamphlet of expressionistic poet Else Lasker-Schüler.
[5] "Poemi Asolani", which tells of the life and work of Italian composer Gian Francesco Malipiero, was made in 1985 and was his first "music film essay".
The idea of this "music film essay" was to create a more sophisticated soundtrack with the intention to not manipulate or influence the audience on an emotional or subconscious level, which usually happens in motion pictures, but to give the audience the possibility to apprehend music on a conscious plane, comparable to the estrangement effect in the theatre of Bertold Brecht.
The first of these films, "Symphonia Colonialis",[11] deals with the origin of largely unknown Brazilian Baroque Music in Minas Gerais.