Wilhelm Hein, Birgit Hein
Materialfilme 1968-1976
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Original format 16mm
Year 1968-1976
Artist(s) Wilhelm Hein, Birgit Hein
Booklet 20 pages
Running time 132 min
Films
ROHFILM (1968) 20'
REPRODUCTIONS (1968) 28'
625 (1969) 34'
PORTRAITS (1970) 15'
MATERIALFILME (1976) 35'
Description
"Film must not be diverted for non-filmic messages": Wilhelm and Birgit Hein examine in their films the process of reproduction and the filmic material itself. Rohfilm shows the destruction of the common "filmic image" and has been described by Stephen Dwoskin as a "visual bombardment" of scraps, fragments, dirt and remnants of film editing. In Reproductions, photographs dissolve into gray, 625 films a "snowy" negative television image at different speeds, while in Portraits, photographs are transformed by the processes of development and reproduction. Materialfilme is made up of the leaders and film ends that open and close the reels, visible elements normally excluded from the screen. The underground films of W+B Hein explore the unprecedented potentials of filmic material, a material that is beginning to disappear in the digital age.