Birgit Hein Movies

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

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

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

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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

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...

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

Diary Film by Birgit Hein in Cuba.

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...

"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...

"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...

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...

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