Birgit Hein

Birgit Hein ( born August 6, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German filmmaker, film theorist, performance artist and high school teacher. With their structural films ( since 1966), performances, documentary film essays and film- scientific publications it is considered as one of the key pioneers of the German underground and experimental film.

Life

Hein studied the early 1960s, art history and theater at the University of Cologne. From 1966 to 1988 she worked with Wilhelm Hein and turned to him with films and performances organized. She was with two film works, together with Wilhelm Hein, participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Department of Film Acting: represent New European Cinema and at the Documenta 6 in 1977 as an artist. Their collaborative work has been presented in various retrospectives, eg in the Anthology Archives, New York ( 1974), the Film Museum Frankfurt (1985 ) and in Cologne ( 1988) and Copenhagen (1989). In the 70 years organizing and curating several exhibitions experimental film, for example, Art is Art (Cologne 1974), Film as film (Cologne, Berlin, Essen, Stuttgart 1977) and film as film (London 1979). Tour for the Goethe Institute to Pakistan, Bangladesh and India ( 1987) and participation in the International Experimental Film Congress Toronto (1989).

In 1968 she co-founded in Cologne XScreen for sub-cultural events and program activities for various cinemas. In the 1970s, followed by teaching assignments for film art at various universities ( uA at the Cologne factory schools). Since 1990, Birgit Hein is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Braunschweig ( HBK Braunschweig), emeritus professor in 2007.

Many premieres of their films at the Forum of New Cinema, Berlin Film Festival (1986, 1992, 1995 ), as well as television broadcasts (such as " Baby I want to make you sweat ', 1997) and acquisitions of film collections (eg, Musée d' Art Moderne - Centre Pompidou, 1999). Numerous retrospectives, for example, Montreal in 2000, Rotterdam in 2000, Madrid in 2002 and in the arsenal Berlin 2003.

Filmography

Exhibitions and solo shows ( selection)

  • Documenta 5, Kassel 1972
  • Documenta 6, Kassel 1977
  • Cineprobe Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1996,
  • San Francisco Cinematheque in 1996,
  • Berlin / Moscow - Moscow / Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau Berlin 2003,
  • X-SCREEN. Film Installations and Actions of the 60s and 70s., Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna 2003,
  • Behind the facts. Interfunktionen 1968 -1975. , Fondacion Miro Barcelona 2004
  • Goethe Institut Shanghai 2007
  • EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL Osnabrück 2007
  • NOTATION, shape and calculus in the arts, the Academy of Arts in Berlin and ZKM Karlsruhe 2008
  • '1968 The great innocence ', Bielefeld 2009
  • MOVING IMAGES, Artist & Video / Film, Museum Ludwig Cologne 2010
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