Kunst & Revolution
Art & Revolution‘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 events. As a whole mythology quickly arose around the event, I altered the material to counteract this effect (through repetition, and adding other material, for instance from a film about keeping dogs, and my own leftover footage from the Muehl action number 54 ‘Im Freudenauer Wasser’).’ In film 16 of his anthology Ernst Schmidt Jr. documented the actions of Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, Peter Weibel and Oswald Wiener.
With
- Günter Brus
- Otto Muehl
- Oswald Wiener
- Dieter Haupt
- Anastas
- Herbert Stumpfl
- Otmar Bauer
- Franz Kaltenbäck
Crew
Director | Ernst Schmidt jr. |
Ernst Schmidt jr.
Born in Hadersdorf am Kamp, Austria in 1938, he died in 1988 in Vienna. He trained as a clerk at a commercial college before, between 1961 and 1963, studying at the film school of the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He became an independent filmmaker in 1963 and by 1986 had made over 50 short films. As a result of his efforts to establish film groups he met Kurt Kren and Ferry Radax. From 1966 he wrote about film for periodicals in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and published numerous theoretical works on avantgarde film. He was a founding member of the Austrian Filmmakers Cooperative and a co-founder of both the Grazer Autorenversammlung (1973) and the Austrian Directors’ Association (1979). His extensive estate is managed and researched by the Synema Society for Film and Media in Vienna.
Filmography (selection)
1965 Bodybuilding; short film 1966 15. Mai 1966; short film · Miliz in der Früh; short film 1967 Rotweißrot; short film 1968 Kunst & Revolution; short film · Ja/Nein; short film · Prost; short film · Schnippschnapp; short film · Hell's Angels; short film · Denkakt; short film 1971 Filmisches Alphabet; short film 1977 The Merry Widow; short film · Mein Begräbnis ein Erlebnis; short film 1978 N; short film 1979 Gesammelt von Wendy; short film
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018