Film

Rohfilm

1968 · 20m · Drama

IMDb

6.4

One of the most important structural films of the period, Rohfilm demonstrates a radical anti-representational approach, destroying the figurative image and bringing attention back to the ‘raw’ photographic material, particularly its physical form. Resisting a stable reference point, the film is a multi-layered onslaught of blurred impressions, shifting surfaces and grating sounds that activates a form of sensuous viewing. In the making of the film, the Heins employed just about every technique of defamiliarization, including direct intervention on the surface of the film strip, rephotography, remediation, and different kinds of mechanical interruption and destruction. It is a striking example of a truly handmade approach. (Kim Knowles)

• Wilhelm HeinDirector
• Birgit HeinDirector

Rohfilm (Birgit und Wilhelm Hein) (fragmento)

Release date

January 2, 1968

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

20m

Genres

Drama