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1967 Selbstschüsse (Self Shots)
About this film
I threw the camera in the air and in this way I was able to express my aversion to conventional film show and skip my own limits. (LUTZ MOMMARTZ) "Selfshots" is the visual biography of an unconventional filmmaker. As a director, cinematographer and actor in one person, he points the camera on himself. He plays with her , throws it into the air, hurtling across the meadows, filmed his movements, his face and his hands and demonstrates in this way his adventurous relationship with a 16mm camera. Not the acting, but the filming itselve becomes the action. Lutz Mommartz makes in his movies the quip of Gadard from "film as the truth 24 times a second" aware like no other. (WILFRIED REICHART, KÖLNER STADTANZEIGER, 4.1.68) "Selfshots" in which Lutz Mommartz can be seen, in a meadow, captured by the camera, that Lutz Mommartz carries while walking on a meadow, sometimes directed at his feet, sometimes throwing in the air, sometimes kissing, sometimes holding his hand before the lense. Even the camera itself can be seen: as a shadow on the meadow, in the air. The cameraman presentes his attitude to life to the public, without using tiring auxiliary constructions, with whom one else often…
Directors & creators
Lutz Mommartz
Subjects
Lutz Mommartz;German experimental Cinema