For the 1977 intermedia exhibition Tangenten I (Tangents I), Dammbeck and co-organizer, sculptor and painter Frieder Heinze had planned to collaborate on a film that would combine non-camera animation with 35mm footage of a train ride between the two Dresden districts of Radebeul and Pieschen. When Tangents I was banned, Heinze turned to other projects, but Dammbeck continued working on the film by himself. METAMORPHOSES I-the first experimental film to be shown publicly in the GDR-marks the filmic beginning of Dammbeck's long-term art project the Herakles-Konzept (Hercules Concept)
