Movies

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

Tangier, Morocco. December 2019 87-year-old American character actor Bruce Glover (Chinatown) goes missing from a film set on the first day of...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Birgit and Wilhelm Hein

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

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

Documentary film by Wilhelm Hein.

Reproductions, for instance, completed in relative speed after the lengthy process of making Rohfilm, explores the aesthetic and perceptual effects...

‘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...

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

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