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IN

DVD006812

Materialfilme

Hein, Wilhelm and Birgit

Edition Filmmuseum 54, 2012

Description:

DVD - Region 1.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.

Notes:

A collection of films by Wilhelm and Birgit Hein. The Heins examine the process of reproduction and the film material itself. Materialfilme includes the elements of every film that normally are not seen on the screen. W+B Hein's underground film classics deal with the unexplored potentials of the film material which starts to disappear in the digital world. Supplemental materials include a 20 page booklet with essays by Marc Siegel and Florian Cramer.

Titles

+ Rohfilm

Alternate Title:

Raw Film

Director:

Hein, Wilhelm and Birgit

Running Time:

Short.   20 minutes

Sound:

sound - Dolby

Color:

b/w

Country:

Germany

Year:

1968

Language:

German language

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde

Notes:

Experimental film in which film itself is photographed and screened.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Reproductions

Director:

Hein, Wilhelm and Birgit

Running Time:

Short.   28 minutes

Sound:

sound - Dolby

Color:

b/w

Country:

Germany

Year:

1969

Language:

German language

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde

Notes:

Reproductions dissolves photos in greys.

+ 625

Director:

Hein, Wilhelm and Birgit

Running Time:

Short.   34 minutes

Sound:

sound - Dolby

Color:

b/w

Country:

Germany

Year:

1969

Language:

German language

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde

Notes:

625 films a negative "snow" TV image with different speeds.

+ Portraits

Director:

Hein, Wilhelm and Birgit

Running Time:

Short.   15 minutes

Sound:

sound - Dolby

Color:

b/w

Country:

Germany

Year:

1970

Language:

German language

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde

Notes:

in Portraits photos are changed by the development and reproduction processes.

+ Materialfilme

Director:

Hein, Wilhelm and Birgit

Running Time:

Short.   35 minutes

Sound:

sound - Dolby

Color:

b/w

Country:

Germany

Year:

1976

Language:

German langauge

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde

Notes:

For Materialfilme (1976), the Heins randomly spliced together a mix of color and black and white material taken from the header and footer of commercial films. The scratches, scribbles, hand-written and commercially printed numbers and dots that adorn such footage rush past the eye until they are replaced by images consisting only of washed-out colors or scratched black and white frames. The Heins acquired this material during their years as programmers and projectionists for various avant-garde and commercial film screenings. In the 1960s and '70s, colors were often painted onto the header and footer of commercial films, so as to aid the projectionist in ordering the different reels. Over the years, this watercolor paint has faded and cracked, and various blotches, scratches and other irregularities have scarred the surface of the filmstrips. In projection, these marks on the material enter into arbitrary rhythmic relationships with the movement of color and the interrupting flashes of white light. Materialfilme thus offers a lush, visual symphony of the textures, the visible liquidity (emphasized by the watercolors), and the colors that mark the usually overlooked or unseen beginnings and endings of films.