HHK Schoenherr
Directing
Biography
HHK Schoenherr (Hans Helmut Klaus Schoenherr, 1936 - 2014), Swiss artist. He was born in 1936 in Nordhausen (Harz, Germany), which would later be part of the GDR. He spent his childhood in Hamburg and the Schleswig-Holstein region. Between 1956 and 1961, he studied fine arts in Hamburg. In 1967, he participated in the experimental film festival of Knokke (Belgium). Initiator and co-founder of the first European meetings of independent filmmakers in Munich in 1968. One of the inventors of the diagrams of frames (scores that direct the rhythmic shooting of the films). Independent filmmaker and producer of experimental films since 1966.
Known For
"This idyll was made for a Dracula film project by Ernst Schmidt of Vienna, who wrote to various European filmmakers in order to produce a bigger film with their participation." (HHK)
Petty-Bourgeois Dracula Idyll at the Family Table
"This film is an attempt in focusing. I visited Kurt Kren in Vienna. (Kurt Kren is considered to be the father of the European underground film.) Kurt Showed me lots of documents, papers and letters, all about the fights he had with many restaurant owners in Vienna. But the film I made is not about these fights; I tried to focus on the eye of the hurricane, the eye of Kurt Kren. Is this Kurt Kren or isn't it?" (HHK)
Portrait: Kurt Kren
"Actions of Indication is an intermission film, which means it is a film for the intermissions in movie theaters. Get the message: FILM is caviar like BASKIN ROBBINS is ice cream." (HHK)
Actions of Indication
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Play 22
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Play 33
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Kinderkrieg & Kinderfrieden oder J.S. Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge
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Supervisuell
Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry’s L’Homme et la nuit (Man and the Night).
Political Portraits
Experimental film with a doll.
Bildabläufe
The film Autoportrait is made up of four parts: Part 1: Search, Part 2: Work, Part 3: Daydream, Part 4: Family. Each of the parts can be shown as a self-contained film.
Daydream and Family
"Location: a ballet company, Mrs. Cordua training alone, training together with another person, head exercises, body exercises, leg and arm exercises, supporting herself, working in the ballet room, taking off her makeup in the dressing room, undressing, washing herself carefully, treating all of the sweaty places of her body (armpits, anus, genitalia), getting dressed, opera house corridors, canteen, driving through the city, typical buildings, shops, factory complexes on the way; apartment—opera house and back, her husband reading the newspaper, sitting, lying down, working, smoking, cooking potatoes, eating potatoes, opening the mail, drinking coffee, filming, caring for feat, mouth, while saying something amusing, hand movement (beheading gesture meaning it is finished), a TV film, dancer relaxing in private, smoking, discussing, disparaging, a TV film, drinking tea, the end: that certain shine in Mrs. Cordua's eyes!" (HHK)
The Portrait of Cordua
"An attempt to make a portrait of my wife." (HHK)
Sonata: Gray Picture/Woman's Picture/Blue Picture & White Frame
The film was found in the estate of HHK Schoenherr and digitized as part of the "Swiss Film Experiments" research project. The title is taken from the label on the film canister. The film does not appear on any HHK Schoenherr filmography. The attribution to HHK Schoenherr's films is questionable.
Abbruch
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Eine Hand geht Spazieren
The film was realized according to the formulaic concept "TAM 4/71."
Play 28/29
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Metermass Kaputt
"In Germany, I bought an old 35mm Debrie camera. I spent several weeks working with this camera and found that its mechanics were marvelously thought out and that the way the camera was made was proof of the skilled craftsmanship back then. I developed a procedure which also allowed me to use the camera as a printing machine. The printing process is not so different from the filming process, as far as the transport of the film goes . . . It was a lot of fun to try to exhaust the possibilities of the Debrie. It was not only the mechanics that were exciting, like the works of a wonderful old clock, but the numerous possibilities for the realization of the second part of the film, too. This consists mainly of what has already been shot, but offers at least 50% more experimental manipulations in the printed part." (HHK)
The Wrecked Cinema
A short film by Raphaela Schoenherr with HHK Schoenherr.
Ich hasse, ich liebe Film
The film Autoportrait is made up of four parts: Part 1: Search, Part 2: Work, Part 3: Daydream, Part 4: Family. Each of the parts can be shown as a self-contained film.
Autoportrait
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