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Materialfilme

1976 · 35 min

A restless, abstract assault of flickering scratches and colour washes that rewards close attention but offers no story, only raw texture rushing past.

Overview
For their 35mm Materialfilme (1976), the Heins randomly spliced together a mix of colour 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 colours or scratched black and white frames.

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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    relentless, 4 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • art
    • technology
    • media
    Places
    None
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • found footage
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action2
    Horror2
    Humour1
    Realism6
    Romance0
    Tension4
    Darkness3
    Complexity8
    Emotional weight2

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    Details

    Genres
    animation
    Directed by
    Birgit Hein, Wilhelm Hein
    Runtime
    35 min
    Country
    Germany

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