Birgit Hein

Birgit Hein

1942-08-06
80 (2023-02-23)
Berlin, Germany

Birgit Hein is a German film director, producer and screenwriter who has made experimental films with her husband Wilhelm Hein since the 1960s.

Berlin, Germany

Birgit Hein is a German film director, producer and screenwriter who has made experimental films with her husband Wilhelm Hein since the 1960s.

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Rohfilm 1968 (5.9)

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. Resisting a stable reference point, the film is a multi-layered onslaught of blurred impressions, shifting surfaces and grating sounds that activates a form of sensuous viewing. In the making of the film, the Heins employed just about every technique of defamiliarization, including direct intervention on the surface of the film strip, rephotography, remediation, and different kinds of mechanical interruption and destruction. It is a striking example of a truly handmade approach. (Kim Knowles)
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Portraits 1970 (5)

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, Biggs, and Wilhelm Hein, that each underwent distinct processes of development so as to highlight different perceptual and aesthetic effects.
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625 1969

‘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.
Birgit Heintel

Birgit Heintel

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Der Kali Prozess 2003

In a acting school in Berlin. The mysterious Elia organizes a course for improving the acting talents, which he calls the "Kali-Process". This technique he learned mid-80s by the infamous "Taylor-Eriksson-Group" in a camp in India. 3 students attend the course and be picked up by Elia on a dangerous journey in their innermost self, which develops into a dangerous trip for everyone involved. Thematically related precursor to "Tears of Kali"(2004).
Birgit-Helis Heinsalu

Birgit-Helis Heinsalu

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Class Reunion 2016 (6)

Three middle aged men are going to their high school reunion after 25 years and the troubles that come with it.