Ernst Schmidt Jr. Movies

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.

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...

This film is a combination of body art, re-making and reconstructing a "film genre" from the early era of filmmaking (series "Comic Faces", 1898,...

At a party, which was organized for Wendy, each person invited brought a photo of themselves. Each photo was filmed according to a strict scheme:...

On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber, candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz, suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of...

On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber, candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz, suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of...

A test film for the later realized "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness" which was shot on Super-8 and premiered at Wels in 1985.

On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber, candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz, suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of...

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...

(for Ernst Schmidt jrs. trilogy Memories of a Nervous Illness, part 1 & part 2) 1987/88, 16mm (S 8 blow up), á 4 min, colour & b/w

Film by Ernst Schmidt Jr.

With P.R.A.T.E.R. Schmidt turned his attention to the place where, once, the medium first came into existence (the Prater is P.R.A.T.E.R. is marked...

A film consisting of the titles of films that were shown in Viennese cinemas at the time of its creation.

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...

On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber, candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz, suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of...

A reconstruction of the "concept film," which Gertrude Stein ("a rose is a rose is a rose") suggested to Charlie Chaplin in the 1920s. (E.S.jr.)

Sara Suranyi, known from Schmidt Jr.'s 12 Uhr Mittags – High Noon, The Merry Widow and Mein Begräbnis ein Erlebnis (My Funeral an...

From START to the end, from the film title to the END title. The title initiates its repetition in the black-and-white image: the banner START...

Once again, the title is to be taken entirely literally. It's happening – for about two seconds: a man and a woman (Günter and presumably...

The eponymous "Hallo", "Hello", greets an apparently nine-year-old fragment, perhaps rediscovered and now processed into a three-second one-shot...