Ernst Schmidt Jr. Movies

  • 1966
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    Film Scraps

    Film Scraps

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    Material actions: Otto Muehl. Montage of left-over film material from film scraps, amateur films, film leaders, recordings of material happenings, etc. Edited according to an exact plan (60 blocks of 10 takes each), then largely drawn over. My most destructive film, the "model for a futuristic...

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  • 1975
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    Filmtagebuch Kurzfassung [Filmtext II]

    Filmtagebuch Kurzfassung [Filmtext II]

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    A film consisting of the titles of films that were shown in Viennese cinemas at the time of its creation.

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  • 1971
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    Film Alphabet

    Film Alphabet

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    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ - each letter is one frame (1/24 of a second) long and each letter originates from a company sign. The film shows the paradoxical relationship between film and written language. (E.S.jr.)

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  • 1967
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    Red-White-Red

    Red-White-Red

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    The formal deconstruction of an Austrian tourist advertisement sign. The national colors red white and red have been removed, filmed separately. In the "white" area is the word "information." The sound is a montage made of parts of Filmreste (Film Remains) and is only audible when the "red" areas...

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  • 1965
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    Stones

    Stones

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    Steine (Stones) is a documentary film on a sculptorsŽ symposium in St. Margarethen, Burgenland. Behind this short description of content lies one of the most intelligently filmed and concepted documentary films in the history of Austrian film. The date of the last showing of this film could not be...

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  • 1975
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    Filmtagebuch I [Filmtext I]

    Filmtagebuch I [Filmtext I]

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    Filming and calling the result a diary is literary. It is filmic to write a film diary and have this writing scroll by as film.

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  • 1979
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    Gertrude Stein Would Have Liked to Have Seen Chaplin in a Film Where He Would Have Nothing Other to Do Than Walk on the Street and Then Go Around a Corner, and Then Around the Next Corner, etc. From Corner to Corner

    Gertrude Stein Would Have Liked to Have Seen Chaplin in a Film Where He Would Have Nothing Other to Do Than Walk on the Street and Then Go Around a Corner, and Then Around the Next Corner, etc. From Corner to Corner

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    A reconstruction of the "concept film," which Gertrude Stein ("a rose is a rose is a rose") suggested to Charlie Chaplin in the 1920s. (E.S.jr.)

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  • 1967
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    Color Film

    Color Film

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    In this film the goal of destroying film semantics has been consistently followed though. Part of the film is composed of a seemingly collision of picture and sound. Whilst filming, the colors called out in the sound were really filmed. Because of the "mistakes" made (unfocusing, copying process,...

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  • 1979
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    Collected by Wendy

    Collected by Wendy

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    At a party, which was organized for Wendy, each person invited brought a photo of themselves. Each photo was filmed according to a strict scheme: each 7 frames, 5 frames, 3 frames and 1 frame (1/24 of a second) long, and then intercut with the other photos. (E.S.jr.)

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  • 1988
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    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 2

    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 2

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    On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber, candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz, suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of the German Reichstag. He was taken up in the mental clinic of the Leipzig University soon afterwards. To his rehabilition he wrote an extensive piece of...

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  • 1974
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    A Subhistory of Film

    A Subhistory of Film

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    All of the photos in Eine Subgeschichte des Films (A Sub-history of Film) by Scheugl/Schmidt (Suhrkamp edition 471) one after another, cut inside in the camera using the same scheme as in Gesammelt von Wendy (Collected by Wendy): each therefore 7, 5, 3, 1 frame(s) long. The film of films. (E.S.jr.)

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  • 1987
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    Daniel Paul Schrebers Stimmvisionen and Schizo-Schreber

    Daniel Paul Schrebers Stimmvisionen and Schizo-Schreber

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    (for Ernst Schmidt jrs. trilogy Memories of a Nervous Illness, part 1 & part 2) 1987/88, 16mm (S 8 blow up), á 4 min, colour & b/w

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  • 1977
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    12 Uhr Mittags - High Noon

    12 Uhr Mittags - High Noon

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    A person sticks it out for 24 hours in front of the camera. Every ten minutes a short clip was recorded, 8 frames per second (which is then projected at a speed of 24 f.p.s.). The tiredness of 24 hours in a time lapse of 4 minutes. (E.S.jr.)

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  • 1977
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    The Merry Widow

    The Merry Widow

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    Through the use of a time lapse effect (single frame shots), the changes in a face covered with a cream cheese mask for 30 minutes are condensed into one minute. (E.S.jr.)

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