Movies: Ernst Schmidt Jr.

  • 1981
    The Total Family

    The Total Family (1981)

    The Total Family

    01981HD

    Baron Childerich III of Bartenbruch considers himself to be a descendant of the Merovingian dynasty and he has drawn up a chart of marriages and adoptions which show that he is his own father, grandfather, father-in-law, and son-in-law. He aims at ac...

    The Total Family
  • 1977
    The Merry Widow

    The Merry Widow (1977)

    The Merry Widow

    01977HD

    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.)...

    The Merry Widow
  • 1971
    Film Alphabet

    Film Alphabet (1971)

    Film Alphabet

    01971HD

    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.)...

    Film Alphabet
  • 1968
    Cheers

    Cheers (1968)

    Cheers

    01968HD

    This is a film with minimal content. Using a film pen, a line was drawn across a strip of clear leader, until it hit the edge of the frame ("cheers"), and then the line was drawn back to the other side ("cheers"), etc. This strip functioned as the fi...

    Cheers
  • 1968
    The Act of Thinking

    The Act of Thinking (1968)

    The Act of Thinking

    01968HD

    This is a portrait of Peter Weibel, and at the same time a reflection on the medium film. As Peter Weibel looks silently into the camera (and thus to the audience) his own difficult text on the subject "Nimm eine Handvoll Zelluloid" ("Take a handful ...

    The Act of Thinking
  • 1968
    Snip, Snip

    Snip, Snip (1968)

    Snip, Snip

    01968HD

    This film has two parts. In the first part, the film material is on 8mm uncut film, so that in the 16mm projection a 4-fold film can be seen. In the second part of the film, the 16mm film is shown in full size, that means the picture is now enlarged ...

    Snip, Snip
  • 1967
    Red-White-Red

    Red-White-Red (1967)

    Red-White-Red

    01967HD

    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 Re...

    Red-White-Red
  • 1967
    Color Film

    Color Film (1967)

    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 th...

    Color Film
  • 1965
    Stones

    Stones (1965)

    Stones

    01965HD

    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 da...

    Stones
  • 1968
    Kunst & Revolution

    Kunst & Revolution (1968)

    Kunst & Revolution

    01968HD

    ‘Kunst & Revolution is a documentation on the famous action known as the “filthy uni mess”, which led to a jury court trial. I only had a few metres of film with me and they were quickly spent, but still the film gives one a rough impression of the e...

    Kunst & Revolution
  • 1978
    N

    N (1978)

    N

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    Recorded during a presentation of the "Performance Art Festival" in the Modern Art Galerie, Vienna. The presentation was officially put to an end by the police because of the infernal sound made by the accompanying noise orchestra. In this film short...

    N
  • 1977
    12 Uhr Mittags - High Noon

    12 Uhr Mittags - High Noon (1977)

    12 Uhr Mittags - High Noon

    01977HD

    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.)...

    12 Uhr Mittags - High Noon
  • 1975
    Filmtagebuch I [Filmtext I]

    Filmtagebuch I [Filmtext I] (1975)

    Filmtagebuch I [Filmtext I]

    01975HD

    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....

    Filmtagebuch I [Filmtext I]
  • 1974
    A Subhistory of Film

    A Subhistory of Film (1974)

    A Subhistory of Film

    01974HD

    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,...

    A Subhistory of Film