In Rohfilm (1968, W. & B. Hein) dirt, sprocket-holes etc. appear independently of a continuous film-strip as aesthetic elements in their own right. Hairs, ashes, bits of tobacco, shredded film-images scraps of paper, sprocket-holes, perforated splicing-tape etc. are glued onto blank film and then re-filmed. The film-strip is then subjected to different reproduction- processes (re-filming from the editing-table, the movieola and the video monitor) and the result is an impression of destruction on a massive scale.

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“…the Heins’ Grun, Rohfilm, and Reproductions include actual film collage and hand attacks upon the celluloid as well as wandering framelines and sprocket holes. Although the Heins’ technique in these films is less structural, their affirmation (particularly in Rohfilm) of the film’s substance and its physical presence in the projector is overwhelming, more powerful than any American film I have seen.” – David Curtis, Experimental Cinema.

Rohfilm.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	20mn 34s
Size:	255 MiB
DXVA:	Incompatible
Minimum settings:	Not met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	640x480
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	1 600 Kbps
Audio
German 2.0ch MP3

https://nitro.download/view/237BF170BB7CDAB/Rohfilm.mkv

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Subtitles:none

The post Wilhelm and Birgit Hein – Rohfilm (1968) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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For their 35mm 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. […] Over the years, this watercolor paint had faded and cracked, and various blotches, scratches and other irregularities have scarred the surface of the filmstrip. In projection, these marks of the material enter into arbitrary rhythmic relationships with the movement of color and the interrupting flashes of white light.

Includes the original soundtrack and four alternative scores:
Track 1: Original
Track 2: Tim and John Blue
Track 3: Sister Iodine
Track 4: Starving Weirdos
Track 5: Roel Meelkop

https://nitro.download/view/7A32744422F0963/Materialfilme_I.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/53B730153218375/Materialfilme_II.mkv

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The post Wilhelm and Birgit Hein – Materialfilme (1976) first appeared on Cinema of the World.