Wilhelm Hein Trailers

Home Movies 1971-81 Trailer (1985)

01 January 1985

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

Kali-Filme Trailer (1988)

02 January 1988

The KALI-FILME are a compilation of 8 single short found footage films, which were composed of Hollywood war-, horror- and women in prison B-pictures, historical war documentaries and porno films.

S&W Trailer (1967)

26 December 1967

Weissfilm Trailer (1977)

09 June 1977

With WEISSFILM (White Film) the Heins ended a ten-year period of producing structural films: works that drew attention to the mediating presence and function of the film material itself.

To Those Who Found No Graves Trailer (1994)

12 February 1994

Documentary film by Wilhelm Hein.

Portraits Trailer (1970)

26 June 1970

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.

Stills Trailer (1973)

11 September 1973

Birgit and Wilhelm Hein

Love Stinks Trailer (1982)

15 December 1982

For nine months German filmmakers and performance artists, Birgit and Wilhelm Hein lived in New York"

Reproductions Trailer (1968)

11 December 1968

Reproductions, for instance, completed in relative speed after the lengthy process of making Rohfilm, explores the aesthetic and perceptual effects of the reproduction of just a single type of image: strips of black and white slide positives from the Heins' vacations in North Africa, Italy, and greece in the early 1960s.

Political Portraits Trailer (1969)

01 January 1969

Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry’s L’Homme et la nuit (Man and the Night).

Forbidden Images Trailer (1986)

01 February 1986

A room above the slaughterhouse. While the animals are beeing butchered below, upstairs an adult is playing out scenes of early puberty.

Rohfilm Trailer (1968)

02 January 1968

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.

Materialfilme Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

For their 35mm Materialfilme (1976), the Heins randomly spliced together a mix of colour and black and white material taken from the header and footer of commercial films.

Structural Studies Trailer (1974)

09 November 1974

The film includes sections which explore the illusion of movement within the frame, the movement created by the filming and projection equipment, of movement suggested by camera manipulation (e.

Materialfilme II Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Using minimal means, Materialfilme is conversely one of the absolutely maximal experiences possible in cinema.