Wilhelm Hein Movies

  • 2021
    An Approximation of their Barbarous Manners

    An Approximation of their Barbarous Manners

    An Approximation of their Barbarous Manners

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    Tangier, Morocco. December 2019 87-year-old American character actor Bruce Glover (Chinatown) goes missing from a film set on the first day of...

    An Approximation of their Barbarous Manners
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

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    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1968
    Rohfilm

    Rohfilm

    Rohfilm

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    One of the most important structural films of the period, Rohfilm demonstrates a radical anti-representational approach, destroying the figurative...

    Rohfilm
  • 1969
    Political Portraits

    Political Portraits

    Political Portraits

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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...

    Political Portraits
  • 1988
    Kali-Filme

    Kali-Filme

    Kali-Filme

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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...

    Kali-Filme
  • 1970
    Portraits

    Portraits

    Portraits

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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...

    Portraits
  • 1974
    Structural Studies

    Structural Studies

    Structural Studies

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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...

    Structural Studies
  • 1977
    Weissfilm

    Weissfilm

    Weissfilm

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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...

    Weissfilm
  • 1973
    Stills

    Stills

    Stills

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    Birgit and Wilhelm Hein

    Stills
  • 1986
    Forbidden Images

    Forbidden Images

    Forbidden Images

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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...

    Forbidden Images
  • 1982
    Love Stinks

    Love Stinks

    Love Stinks

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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...

    Love Stinks
  • 1967
    S&W

    S&W

    S&W

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    S&W
  • 1994
    To Those Who Found No Graves

    To Those Who Found No Graves

    To Those Who Found No Graves

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    Documentary film by Wilhelm Hein.

    To Those Who Found No Graves
  • 1968
    Reproductions

    Reproductions

    Reproductions

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    Reproductions, for instance, completed in relative speed after the lengthy process of making Rohfilm, explores the aesthetic and perceptual effects...

    Reproductions
  • 1969
    625

    625

    625

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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...

    625
  • 1976
    Materialfilme II

    Materialfilme II

    Materialfilme II

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    Using minimal means, Materialfilme is conversely one of the absolutely maximal experiences possible in cinema. It's a masterpiece revealing film as a...

    Materialfilme II
  • 1976
    Materialfilme

    Materialfilme

    Materialfilme

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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...

    Materialfilme