HHK Schoenherr Movies

Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry’s L’Homme...

"In Germany, I bought an old 35mm Debrie camera. I spent several weeks working with this camera and found that its mechanics were marvelously thought...

Experimental film with a doll.

"I wanted to make a portrait of three artists that would show them by primarily using their surroundings. Therefore, the artists themselves would not...

Emmental is lovely. To us, it looks like something out of a picture book. And this kind of landscape always has a history. And many good artists come...

The film was realized according to the formulaic concept "TAM 4/71."

"I did the takes for this film in the fall of 1966 and in the summer of 1967. I came to know and love the 'old woman' who gave her 'face' in one of...

"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...

"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.)...

The first film made in black-and-white. Made using my own printing technique. Beforehand: This film, which is basically romantic or, even more, a...

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...

The film was realized according to the formulaic concept "TAM 4/71."

"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...

"An attempt to make a portrait of my wife." (HHK)

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...