Rohfilm

One of the most important structural films of the period Rohfilm demonstrates a radical antirepresentational approach destroying the figurative image and bringing attention back to the raw photographic material particularly its physical form Resisting a stable reference point the film is a multilayered onslaught of blurred impressions shifting surfaces and grating sounds that activates a form of sensuous viewing In the making of the film the Heins employed just about every technique of defamiliarization including direct intervention on the surface of the film strip rephotography remediation and different kinds of mechanical interruption and destruction It is a striking example of a truly handmade approach Kim Knowles