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 Beauty7.62021HD
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
- 2005
Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch
Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch02005HD
A casual, personal portrait of Hermann Nitsch, made with footage I took over the many years of our friendship. Footage includes early performances in...
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life81986HD
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
- 2010
Becoming Otto
Becoming Otto02010HD
A portrait of the Austrian avant-garde artist Otto Mühl/Muehl (1925-2013), whose work combined sex, violence, gastronomy and bodily effluence...
- 2007
365 Day Project
365 Day Project02007HD
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...
- 1967
Wehrertüchtigung
Wehrertüchtigung3.31967HD
Experimental film depicting military service in a grotesque way.
- 2008
Christoph Schlingensief - Die Piloten
Christoph Schlingensief - Die Piloten02008HD
Documentary satire about a project by Christoph Schlingensief: Ten years after his TV project "Talk 2000", Schlingensief started to work on a new...
- 2018
Nitsch
Nitsch02018HD
A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1970.
- 1979
Paradise Not Yet Lost
Paradise Not Yet Lost01979HD
The film is arranged in six chronologically-ordered parts, each filmed in a different location during Oona's third year.
- 1977
Documentazione Della Settimana Internazionale Della Performance
Documentazione Della Settimana Internazionale Della Performance01977HD
“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...
- 2002
Trieste
Trieste02002HD
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...
- 1982
Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht
Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht01982HD
Biopic of tragic Schlager singer Drafi Deutscher.
- 2006
The Action Art of Hermann Nitsch from Past to Present
The Action Art of Hermann Nitsch from Past to Present02006HD
Retrospective on Hermann Nitsch. A 4-Hour overview of his Actions from 1962-2003, as well as an interview from 2005.
- 2001
Frauenmuskel
Frauenmuskel02001HD
"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...
- 2005
Das Orgien Mysterien Theater
Das Orgien Mysterien Theater02005HD
Nitsch's work, which can be considered both ritualistic and existential, first drew attention in the early 1960s when he exhibited a skinned and...