Birgit Hein Movies

Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry’s L’Homme...

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

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

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second...

Using minimal means, Materialfilme is conversely one of the absolutely maximal experiences possible in cinema. It's a masterpiece revealing film as a...

"Since the beginning of history women have also been perpetrators. They have been as courageous and brave as men. They can be equally brutal and...

For nine months German filmmakers and performance artists, Birgit and Wilhelm Hein lived in New York. LOVE STINKS is a very personal, deeply...

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

The series of portrait films that the Heins made between 1970-73 attest to their deepening interest in the movement generated solely through...

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

‘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...

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

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

One of the most important structural films of the period, Rohfilm demonstrates a radical anti-representational approach, destroying the figurative...

Birgit and Wilhelm Hein

Diary Film by Birgit Hein in Cuba.

"This film is a found footage montage of war coverage since World War II. The clips are taken from television documentaries from Arte to CNN. The...

In this highly personal and intimate travel diary, Birgit Hein has filmed with great candour her problems with aging, her need for tenderness, the...