Directing
Ludwig Schönherr
Place of birth
Nordhausen, Germany
Known for
Directing
Credits
12 titles
Ludwig Schönherr began making photographs and paintings in the late ‘50s. In the mid-‘60s, his interest in the visual arts shifted to film. From 1967-1970, a period of intense productivity in European experimental film more generally, Schönherr made scores of short super 8 and 16mm films that explored specific technical, aesthetic, and representational aspects of the medium, namely, the zoom, the use of flickering color, and the depiction of the face. At approximately the same time, Schönherr acquired his first black and white television and produced a lengthy series of “electronic films” or single-frame films of television images, interrupted by flickering color. This beautiful and ever wat…
Known for
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Zoom - Dokumentation
1968
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Porträtfilm: Dieter Meier
1969
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Face I und II
1968
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ELECTRONIC GEMISCHT (Sonate für 4 Fernseher)
1969
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ELECTRONIC NO 17 - SERIE A WEISS
1969
NRIn the mid to late '70s, over several visits to New York, Schönherr produced an astounding 107 hour super8 film, a "visual diary" that consists of impressions of the city, its inhabitants, and its television culture.
New York. Ein visuelles Arbeitstagebuch
1979
Behind the camera
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Zoom - Dokumentation
1968
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Porträtfilm: Dieter Meier
1969
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Face I und II
1968
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ELECTRONIC GEMISCHT (Sonate für 4 Fernseher)
1969
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ELECTRONIC NO 17 - SERIE A WEISS
1969
NRIn the mid to late '70s, over several visits to New York, Schönherr produced an astounding 107 hour super8 film, a "visual diary" that consists of impressions of the city, its inhabitants, and its television culture.
New York. Ein visuelles Arbeitstagebuch
1979
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ELECTRONIC NO 18 - SERIE A ROT
1969
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ELECTRONIC NO 19 - SERIE A GELB
1969
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Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren
1969
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Porträtfilm: Elisabeth Erkner
1969
The film intersperses carefully framed shots of unfamiliar Hamburg cityscapes with silent, close-ups of ballerinas from the Hamburg Ballet, images reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s “Screen Tests”.
Unknown Hamburg
1988
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Katalogfilm Andy Warhol
1969