Movies: Birgit Hein
- 1997
Birth of a Nation (1997)
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Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
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Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years....
- 1969
Political Portraits (1969)
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Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry’s L’Homme et la nuit (Man and the Night)....
- 1968
Rohfilm (1968)
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One of the most important structural films of the period, Rohfilm demonstrates a radical anti-representational approach, destroying the figurative image and bringing attention back to the ‘raw’ photographic material, particularly its physical form. R...
- 1988
Kali-Filme (1988)
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The KALI-FILME are a compilation of 8 single short found footage films, which were composed of Hollywood war-, horror- and women in prison B-pictures, historical war documentaries and porno films. In the trivial films we find images of our own subcon...
- 1973
Stills (1973)
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Birgit and Wilhelm Hein...
- 1968
Reproductions (1968)
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Reproductions, for instance, completed in relative speed after the lengthy process of making Rohfilm, explores the aesthetic and perceptual effects of the reproduction of just a single type of image: strips of black and white slide positives from the...
- 1974
Structural Studies (1974)
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The film includes sections which explore the illusion of movement within the frame, the movement created by the filming and projection equipment, of movement suggested by camera manipulation (e.g. zoom, re-focus, etc.). Structural Studies exemplified...
- 1997
Eintagsfliegen (1997)
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Short film by Birgit Hein with paintings and texts by Gabriele Kutz....
- 1970
Portraits (1970)
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The series of portrait films that the Heins made between 1970-73 attest to their deepening interest in the movement generated solely through cinematic processes of reproduction. [...] Portraits (1970) is a collection of three of these films, Manson, ...
- 1977
Weissfilm (1977)
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With WEISSFILM (White Film) the Heins ended a ten-year period of producing structural films: works that drew attention to the mediating presence and function of the film material itself. This comparatively short film consists of strips of transparent...
- 1976
Materialfilme (1976)
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For their 35mm Materialfilme (1976), the Heins randomly spliced together a mix of colour and black and white material taken from the header and footer of commercial films. The scratches, scribbles, hand-written and commercially printed numbers and do...
- 2000
La moderna poesía (2000)
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Diary Film by Birgit Hein in Cuba....
- 2013
Abstrakter Film (2013)
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- 1967
S&W (1967)
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- 1986
Forbidden Images (1986)
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A room above the slaughterhouse. While the animals are beeing butchered below, upstairs an adult is playing out scenes of early puberty. The woman in the room of the slaughterhouse cuts off all his hair. Aloud the man reads a story of the unrestraine...
- 1982
Love Stinks (1982)
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For nine months German filmmakers and performance artists, Birgit and Wilhelm Hein lived in New York. LOVE STINKS is a very personal, deeply disturbing and often shocking record of their visit. "For many people it will perhaps be depressing at first ...
- 1992
Die unheimlichen Frauen (1992)
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"Since the beginning of history women have also been perpetrators. They have been as courageous and brave as men. They can be equally brutal and criminal and of course just as horny. Nevertheless, to this day, there exists the feminine ideal of "non-...
- 2006
Images of War (2006)
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"This film is a found footage montage of war coverage since World War II. The clips are taken from television documentaries from Arte to CNN. The images show aestheticized fireworks from Dresden to Bagdad, where people only appear as shadows. The sou...
- 1969
625 (1969)
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‘625' operates with changing blurs of TV screen rasters, filmed off the TV set and negatively reproduced, and made up of 625 lines. The sound is derived from the light levels of the individual picture elements via a photoresistor....