Peter Tscherkassky
Index 42 : Stones & 20 Action and Destruction Films
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Original format 16mm
Year 1967-1979
Artist(s) Ernst Schmidt Jr.
Booklet 20 pages (German, English)
Running time 71 min
Films
YES/NO (1968) 3'
WHITE (1968) 2'
CHEERS (1968) 3'
RED-WHITE-RED (1967) 1'
SNIP SNAP (1968) 2'
A MOVIE ABC (1971) 1"
IMPERIAL THEATER (1970) 6'
COLLECTED BY WENDY (1979) 2'
A SUB-HISTORY OF FILM (1974) 2'
THE ACT OF THINKING (1968) 3'
MY FUNERAL AN EXPERIENCE (1977) 1'
12 UHR MITTAGS - HIGH NOON (1977) 4'
THE MERRY WIDOW (1977) 1'
GERTRUDE STEIN WOULD HAVE LIKED TO SEE CHAPLIN IN A FILM IN WHICH HE WOULD JUST WALK DOWN A STREET, TURN AROUND A CORNER AND THEN AROUND THE NEXT AND SO ON AD INFINITUM (1979) 3'
N (1978) 6'
ART & REVOLUTION (1968) 2'
BODYBUILDING (1965) 9'
ONETWOTHREE (1965) 8'
FILM SCRAPS (1966) 10'
COLOR FILM (1967) 30"
Description
"If I had to name a single Austrian filmmaker who, to this day, has not received the international recognition that the artistic level of his work deserves, I would designate him without hesitation. When he died in 1988, at the early age of 50, Ernst Schmidt Jr. left behind a body of work of rarely equaled diversity, including experimental documentary films, material films, expanded cinema, abstract films, project films, conceptual films, lettrist films with texts, compilation films, as well as a dramatic feature film. The catalog of a posthumous exhibition at the Secession in Vienna in 2001, as well as his personal page (initiated and maintained by his half-brother Helmut Benedikt) lists nearly 100 works. In 1980, Schmidt Jr. drew from this wealth to create a compilation titled 20 Aktions- und Destruktionsfilme 1965-1979. This compilation is now available for the first time on DVD."
— Peter Tscherkassky