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WILHELM HEIN’S SECRET CABINET<\/strong> Wilhelm Hein\u2019s Secret Cabinet\u2014Films From a Private Collection<\/strong><\/p>\n This screening of films from Wilhelm Hein\u2019s personal collection includes rarely seen works by some of the major artists of the last century, including Andy Warhol and Dieter Roth. The afternoon\u2019s Materialist theme is extended with the process works of Tony Conrad and Peter Weibel, but here it collides with the German punk scene of the 1980s and the controversial performance art of the Viennese Aktionists Brus and M\u00fchl.<\/p>\n KISS (excerpt) MARIO BANANA#1 4 FILME (DOCKS & DOTS) FINGERPRINT 4-X ATTACK CH\u00c9RIE CH\u00c9RIE UNFINISHED FILM ZERREISSPROBE DAS LEBEN DES SID VICIOUS JOYCE IN PREUSSEN SCHEISSKERL
\nSaturday 20 May 2006, at 7pm
\nLondon Goethe Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nAndy Warhol, USA, 1963, b\/w, silent, 12 min
\n<\/strong>Three kissing couples from the Andy Warhol serial.<\/p>\n
\nAndy Warhol, USA, 1964, colour, silent, 4 min
\n<\/strong>Underground superstar Mario Montez eats a banana \u2026 in his own special way.<\/p>\n
\nDieter Roth, Germany, 1956-62, b\/w & colour, silent, 10 min
\n<\/strong>German artist Dieter Roth made early direct cinema experiments by physically punching holes into the film material.<\/p>\n
\nPeter Weibel, Austria, 1969, b\/w, silent, 1 min
\n<\/strong>\u201cThe film was produced by means of pressure rather than exposure \u2013 film as the trace of a touch rather than light.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTony Conrad, USA, 1973, b\/w, silent, 3 min
\n<\/strong>What remains of raw, unexposed black and white film stock that has been violently battered with a hammer.<\/p>\n
\nLukas Schmied, Germany, 1993, b\/w, sound, 10 min
\n<\/strong>Boredom, sex and destruction: A film that encapsulates the German punk aesthetic.<\/p>\n
\nKurt Kren, Austria, c.1970, b\/w, silent, 3 min
\n<\/strong>An unknown, unseen, and unfinished work by the legendary Austrian filmmaker.<\/p>\n
\nG\u00fcnther Brus, Austria, 1970, colour, sound, 15 min
\n<\/strong>This final solo performance by Viennese Aktionist Brus is an extreme test of endurance and suffering.<\/p>\n
\nNikolaus Uterm\u00f6hlen & Max M\u00fcller, Germany, 1981, colour, sound, 12 min
\n<\/strong>Oskar & Angie (aged 3 and 7 years) act out the tragic story of Sid & Nancy, punk\u2019s royal couple, in a film by the art group Die T\u00f6dliche Doris.<\/p>\n
\nAnnette Frick, Germany, 2004, b\/w, sound, 5 min
\n<\/strong>A film reconstruction of Marie-Guillemine Benoist\u2019s \u201cPortrait of a Negress\u201d (1900).<\/p>\n
\nOtto M\u00fchl, Austria, 1969, colour, sound, 12 min
\n<\/strong>Dedicated to Bataille, this rarely seen film is a hilarious, subversive and explicit performance for camera.<\/p>\n