# Birgit Hein & Wilhelm Hein [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgit_Hein) (Birgit: 1942 – 2023; Wilhelm: 1940 – 2025) ## Description German filmmaking partnership; Birgit Hein and Wilhelm Hein worked together from the mid-1960s making structural/materialist films — including *Rohfilm* (1968), assembled from damaged and spliced raw film stock — while also publishing some of the earliest critical writing and film-study surveys on German underground and experimental film. ## Key Tags #structural-materialist #found-footage #expanded-cinema #german-avant-garde #drawn-on-film ## Essential Works - *Rohfilm* (1968) - collaborative structural film built from damaged, scratched, and spliced raw film stock - *Structural Film* (Birgit Hein, ed., 1971) - early critical survey/anthology on structural film ## Details "With her structural films (since 1966), performances, documentary film essays and film study publications, [Birgit Hein] is considered one of the decisive pioneers of German underground and experimental films." ### Concepts and Theories - [[Avant Garde Film]] - Birgit Hein's critical writing was among the first sustained German scholarship on structural/experimental film ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Collaborators %% none yet %% ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements %% none yet %% ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %% ### Secondary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %%