Directing

HHK Schoenherr

Nordhausen, Germany

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.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Robert Walser poster
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An experimental biopic that explores the life of Swiss writer Robert Walser. The film deliberately avoids a linear narrative structure and approaches Walser more in the form of a poetic meditation on the life of a poet. Walser is portrayed as a role model for the film's author, who has radically distanced himself from or rejected the grammar and rhetoric of conventional film more than his colleagues.

Robert Walser

1978

Robert Walser poster
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An experimental biopic that explores the life of Swiss writer Robert Walser. The film deliberately avoids a linear narrative structure and approaches Walser more in the form of a poetic meditation on the life of a poet. Walser is portrayed as a role model for the film's author, who has radically distanced himself from or rejected the grammar and rhetoric of conventional film more than his colleagues.

Robert Walser

1978

Robert Walser poster
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An experimental biopic that explores the life of Swiss writer Robert Walser. The film deliberately avoids a linear narrative structure and approaches Walser more in the form of a poetic meditation on the life of a poet. Walser is portrayed as a role model for the film's author, who has radically distanced himself from or rejected the grammar and rhetoric of conventional film more than his colleagues.

Robert Walser

1978

Metermass Kaputt poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Metermass Kaputt

1969

Actions of Indication poster
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"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

1970

Actions of Indication poster
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"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

1970

Autoportrait poster
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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

1968

Autoportrait poster
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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

1968

Play 33 poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Play 33

1989

Play 33 poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Play 33

1989

Supervisuell poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Supervisuell

1969

Supervisuell poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Supervisuell

1969

Malfilm poster
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A short film by HHK Schoenherr

Malfilm

1967

Abbruch poster
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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

1969

Play 22 poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Play 22

1979

Play 22 poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Play 22

1979

Play 20 poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Play 20

1973

Play 20 poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Play 20

1973

Portrait: Kurt Kren poster
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"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

1970

Portrait: Kurt Kren poster
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"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

1970

Play poster
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As a word, play stands for playing, playful, giving full play to your imagination, play-acting style, play at passion, playground, manner of playing, playing for time, phase of play, playing a joke, play document, playing field, playroom, and everything that has to do with film, the film stock, with its color and black/white. Unexposed, overexposed and double-and multiple-exposed film, waste material and the creations of fancy.

Play

1968

Bildabläufe poster
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Experimental film with a doll.

Bildabläufe

1972

Petty-Bourgeois Dracula Idyll at the Family Table poster
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"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

1979

Petty-Bourgeois Dracula Idyll at the Family Table poster
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"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

1979