Ernst Schmidt Jr. Movies

  • 1979
    Gertrude Stein Would Have Liked to Have Seen Chaplin in a Film Where He Would Have Nothing Other to Do Than Walk on the Street and Then Go Around a Corner, and Then Around the Next Corner, etc. From Corner to Corner

    Gertrude Stein Would Have Liked to Have Seen Chaplin in a Film Where He Would Have Nothing Other to Do Than Walk on the Street and Then Go Around a Corner, and Then Around the Next Corner, etc. From Corner to Corner

    Gertrude Stein Would Have Liked to Have Seen Chaplin in a Film Where He Would Have Nothing Other to Do Than Walk on the Street and Then Go Around a Corner, and Then Around the Next Corner, etc. From Corner to Corner

    01979HD

    A reconstruction of the "concept film," which Gertrude Stein ("a rose is a rose is a rose") suggested to Charlie Chaplin in the 1920s. (E.S.jr.)

    Gertrude Stein Would Have Liked to Have Seen Chaplin in a Film Where He Would Have Nothing Other to Do Than Walk on the Street and Then Go Around a Corner, and Then Around the Next Corner, etc. From Corner to Corner
  • 1988
    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 2

    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 2

    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 2

    01988HD

    On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber, candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz, suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of...

    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 2
  • 1980
    Exit... But No Panic

    Exit... But No Panic

    Exit... But No Panic

    3.81980HD

    A guy having sex with a woman on a rooftop – just to get her coffee-machine.

    Exit... But No Panic
  • 1981
    The Total Family

    The Total Family

    The Total Family

    01981HD

    Baron Childerich III of Bartenbruch considers himself to be a descendant of the Merovingian dynasty and he has drawn up a chart of marriages and...

    The Total Family
  • 1993
    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3

    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3

    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3

    01993HD

    On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber, candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz, suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of...

    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3
  • 1977
    ViennaFilm 1896-1976

    ViennaFilm 1896-1976

    ViennaFilm 1896-1976

    01977HD

    This film is a kind of anthology about Vienna, from the invention of film to the present day. The aim is to break down the usual clichéd...

    ViennaFilm 1896-1976
  • 1966
    Film Scraps

    Film Scraps

    Film Scraps

    01966HD

    Material actions: Otto Muehl. Montage of left-over film material from film scraps, amateur films, film leaders, recordings of material happenings,...

    Film Scraps
  • 1970
    Imperial Theatre

    Imperial Theatre

    Imperial Theatre

    01970HD

    A nostalgic honoring as well as a reciprocal re-make of the film of the same name by Willi Forst. A setting to film of a 1930s book, literally: page...

    Imperial Theatre
  • 1967
    Red-White-Red

    Red-White-Red

    Red-White-Red

    01967HD

    The formal deconstruction of an Austrian tourist advertisement sign. The national colors red white and red have been removed, filmed separately. In...

    Red-White-Red
  • 1971
    Film Alphabet

    Film Alphabet

    Film Alphabet

    01971HD

    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ - each letter is one frame (1/24 of a second) long and each letter originates from a company sign. The film shows the...

    Film Alphabet
  • 1968
    Onetwothree

    Onetwothree

    Onetwothree

    01968HD

    This film includes shots from Silberarsch (Silver Arse; the 16th material action by Otto Muehl, 1965), Bimmel-Bammel (Ding-Dong; MuehlŽ s 17th...

    Onetwothree
  • 1965
    Stones

    Stones

    Stones

    01965HD

    Steine (Stones) is a documentary film on a sculptorsŽ symposium in St. Margarethen, Burgenland. Behind this short description of content lies...

    Stones
  • 1977
    My Funeral an Experience

    My Funeral an Experience

    My Funeral an Experience

    01977HD

    This film is a combination of body art, re-making and reconstructing a "film genre" from the early era of filmmaking (series "Comic Faces", 1898,...

    My Funeral an Experience
  • 1968
    Nothing

    Nothing

    Nothing

    01968HD

    Conceptual overabundance was contrasted with nothing in Nothing, which, as the title promises, was nothing. Two years later, when Schmidt Jr. wanted...

    Nothing
  • 1985
    Probefilm zu den Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken

    Probefilm zu den Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken

    Probefilm zu den Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken

    01985HD

    A test film for the later realized "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness" which was shot on Super-8 and premiered at Wels in 1985.

    Probefilm zu den Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken
  • 1968
    The Act of Thinking

    The Act of Thinking

    The Act of Thinking

    01968HD

    This is a portrait of Peter Weibel, and at the same time a reflection on the medium film. As Peter Weibel looks silently into the camera (and thus to...

    The Act of Thinking
  • 1967
    Color Film

    Color Film

    Color Film

    01967HD

    In this film the goal of destroying film semantics has been consistently followed though. Part of the film is composed of a seemingly collision of...

    Color Film
  • 1968
    Kunst & Revolution

    Kunst & Revolution

    Kunst & Revolution

    01968HD

    ‘Kunst & Revolution is a documentation on the famous action known as the “filthy uni mess”, which led to a jury court trial. I only...

    Kunst & Revolution
  • 1968
    White

    White

    White

    01968HD

    In a blank film, holes were punched with a office hole-punch. During the projection, only the black scratches present in the material, which form...

    White
  • 1968
    Snip, Snip

    Snip, Snip

    Snip, Snip

    01968HD

    This film has two parts. In the first part, the film material is on 8mm uncut film, so that in the 16mm projection a 4-fold film can be seen. In the...

    Snip, Snip