Material as Content
Date: 20 May 2006 | Season: Wilhelm Hein
MATERIAL AS CONTENT: WILHELM HEIN & MALCOLM LE GRICE
Saturday 20 May 2006, at 4pm
London Goethe Institute
Wilhelm Hein & Malcolm Le Grice Screening and Conversation
An informal discussion between Malcolm Le Grice and Wilhelm Hein on the origins and development of Materialist filmmaking, and the connections and common ground shared between British and German artists in the 1960s and 1970s. Each will show selections of their work from this formative period.
REPRODUCTIONS
W+B Hein, Germany, 1969, b/w, sound, 28 min
Strips of 35mm photographic negatives are hand manipulated in a Moviola editing machine and shot from its screen. The images are accompanied by a soundtrack by Christian Michelis. Hein considers this early anti-art film “even more concentrated than Rohfilm.”
YES NO MAYBE MAYBENOT
Malcolm Le Grice, UK, 1967, b/w, silent, 8 min
“A film that makes its experience through specific cutting devices in the printing and processing technique, which mainly involved certain kinds of positive-negative superimposition.”
LITTLE DOG FOR ROGER
Malcolm Le Grice, UK, 1967, b/w, sound, 12 min
Le Grice’s early Materialist project was created by pulling 9.5mm home movie footage through the 16mm printer. In projection, the photographic images become difficult to read and the primary content becomes the film strip itself.