Hermann Nitsch Movies

  • 2021
    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

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    A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1986
    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

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    A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

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    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

    365 Day Project
  • 1979
    Paradise Not Yet Lost

    Paradise Not Yet Lost

    Paradise Not Yet Lost

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    The film is arranged in six chronologically-ordered parts, each filmed in a different location during Oona's third year.

    Paradise Not Yet Lost
  • 2008
    Christoph Schlingensief - Die Piloten

    Christoph Schlingensief - Die Piloten

    Christoph Schlingensief - Die Piloten

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    Documentary satire about a project by Christoph Schlingensief: Ten years after his TV project "Talk 2000", Schlingensief started to work on a new...

    Christoph Schlingensief - Die Piloten
  • 2002
    Trieste

    Trieste

    Trieste

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    Based on slides shot in 1978 of the Austrian aktion artist Hermann Nitsch. Put away for 24 years, the color transparencies are spread out on a light...

    Trieste
  • 1982
    Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht

    Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht

    Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht

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    Biopic of tragic Schlager singer Drafi Deutscher.

    Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht
  • 1967
    Wehrertüchtigung

    Wehrertüchtigung

    Wehrertüchtigung

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    Experimental film depicting military service in a grotesque way.

    Wehrertüchtigung
  • 2005
    Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch

    Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch

    Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch

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    A casual, personal portrait of Hermann Nitsch, made with footage I took over the many years of our friendship. Footage includes early performances in...

    Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch
  • 2010
    Becoming Otto

    Becoming Otto

    Becoming Otto

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    A portrait of the Austrian avant-garde artist Otto Mühl/Muehl (1925-2013), whose work combined sex, violence, gastronomy and bodily effluence...

    Becoming Otto
  • 2018
    Nitsch

    Nitsch

    Nitsch

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    A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1970.

    Nitsch
  • 1977
    Documentazione Della Settimana Internazionale Della Performance

    Documentazione Della Settimana Internazionale Della Performance

    Documentazione Della Settimana Internazionale Della Performance

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    “Before the eyes of all, at least of those present, the naked and direct exhibitions of the body take place with all its extensions; but the...

    Documentazione Della Settimana Internazionale Della Performance
  • 2006
    The Action Art of Hermann Nitsch from Past to Present

    The Action Art of Hermann Nitsch from Past to Present

    The Action Art of Hermann Nitsch from Past to Present

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    Retrospective on Hermann Nitsch. A 4-Hour overview of his Actions from 1962-2003, as well as an interview from 2005.

    The Action Art of Hermann Nitsch from Past to Present
  • 2001
    Frauenmuskel

    Frauenmuskel

    Frauenmuskel

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    "Frauenmuskel is a jarring and sexually explicit film. Yet, the film holds an important dual sense of mystery that haunts long and after the film is...

    Frauenmuskel
  • 2005
    Das Orgien Mysterien Theater

    Das Orgien Mysterien Theater

    Das Orgien Mysterien Theater

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    Nitsch's work, which can be considered both ritualistic and existential, first drew attention in the early 1960s when he exhibited a skinned and...

    Das Orgien Mysterien Theater