Column One was founded in Berlin, 1991 as the ideological basis for an (aesthetic) approach to structures, philosophical ideas & media of the (now) western world. At that time Rene Lamp & Robert Schalinski already had been working together on short-film projects. The philosophical ideas of radical constructivism (Paul Watzlawik etc.), the paths of the cut-up demonstrators such as W.S. Burroughs, Bryon Gysin & JŸrgen Ploog, the experiments of pop-terrorists like Genesis P-Orridge with Psychic TV & the films of directors like Andrew Tarkowski, Derek Jarman, Ingmar Bergmann, Lars von Trier, Alexandro Jodorowski have had greater influence on the foundation and the work of Column One.