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Birgit Hein was born in Berlin in 1942. She met Wilhelm Hein in 1959. From 1962 both studied in Cologne; Birgit studied art history while Wilhelm studied sociology. They married in 1964 and began joint film work two years later, abandoning their studies.
Their first film was accepted for the Fourth International Experimental Film Competition in Knokke, Belgium (1967-8). In the spring of 1968, together with other filmmakers and film journalists they founded X Screen, the first exhibition venue for fringe film in Germany. Their first international success came with Rohfilm in 1968. In 1971 the paperback Film im Underground by Birgit Hein appeared, the first German-language publication on the subject of underground film.
From 1973 to 1977 Birgit Hein undertook various teaching assignments. In 1977 they assumed the direction of the film section of Dokumenta 6, staging the exhibition ‘Film as Film.’ They subsequently abandoned formal/material filmmaking and began a performance tour through Germany and the United States. They are recently separated.
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BABY I WILL MAKE YOU SWEAT - version française
1994 / color / sound / single screen / 63' 00 / 168 € distribution: 16mm |