Materialfilme II

A hypnotic, abrasive plunge into the raw physicality of film, demanding patience as it corrodes and fractures before your eyes.

Directed by

Birgit Hein, Wilhelm Hein

Overview

Using minimal means, Materialfilme is conversely one of the absolutely maximal experiences possible in cinema. It's a masterpiece revealing film as a toxic material, an industrial material—a material that corrodes, that wears, that fractures and most of all, a material that can be purposefully manipulated. Extraordinarily active as a filmmaker, film collector and catalyst since the 1960s, Wilhelm Hein is one of film's true individualists; still absolutely dedicated to the moving image as a means of provocation, subversion and documentation of the most intimate type.

How it feels

Dark, bleak, eerie and absurd. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Art, obsession, identity, madness

Content

Mild violence, gore and sexual content. No swearing.

Note

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