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Materialfilme
1976 · Film · short · 35 min
Directed by Birgit Hein, Wilhelm Hein
For their 35mm Materialfilme (1976), the Heins randomly spliced together a mix of colour and black and white material taken from the header and footer of commercial films. The scratches, scribbles, hand-written and commercially printed numbers and dots that adorn such footage rush past the eye until they are replaced by images consisting only of washed-out colours or scratched black and white frames.
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Even working with the specific material of film header is surprisingly common in experimental/artists film.
See e.g.
Guy Sherwin "At The Academy" (using standard Academy header) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=agQsAS6T_Lk
Birgit and Wilhelm Hein's "Materialfilme" is just colored header which bears the marks of repeated projection. https://www.edition-filmmuseum.com/product_info.php/language/en/info/p116_Materialfilme-1968-76.html
Those are from the 60s and 70s. Artists are still at it, e.g. Lucy Raven, RP31, (2012): http://lucyraven.com/RP31
I'm not judging Raven's work but I for one am no longer interested in variations of this genre of film...