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Movie
Original title Black fowl, brown fowl, black fowl, white fowl, red chicken white or put-putt
Country of production Germany
Publishing year 1967
length 10 mins
Rod
Director Werner Nekes

schwarzhuhnbraunhuhnschwarzhuhnweißhuhnrothuhnweiß or put-putt is an experimental short film by Werner Nekes from 1967 and shows a eating and then dying chicken.

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The camera is positioned under a glass plate and shows the black grains on it. A brown chicken picks up the grains and slowly the picture brightens up. New grains are scattered and the image turns black again. After a cut, the picture shows a white area made of snow. A headless chicken will bleed to death and turn the snow red. Fresh snow covers the bleeding chicken. The picture is accompanied by a sound collage of around 200 beginnings and ends of various pieces of music.

Performances and awards

The film was shown at several festivals in Germany and abroad, including the Hamburg Film Show and the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen , and won the International Film Prize at the São Paulo Film Festival.

Attempts at interpretation

Ulrich Gregor states that Nekes' experimental films are "often structured according to complicated mathematical rules that the viewer cannot immediately understand" . Christine Noll Brinckmann analyzes that Nekes' style is “of high technical perfection and, despite a downright scientific precision, contemplative in character” .

Werner Nekes' website notes that the film is "a poetic experiment about life and death" . The “put” stands for the call for the chicken to eat, the “putt” in the sense of “broken” for the death of the chicken. Been suggested for unusual camera positioning either by Nekes René Clair film Entr'acte which transforms (1924), which shows a filmed from below Ballerina by changing the camera position in a bearded man.

criticism

Ingrid Seidenfaden wrote in the Münchner Merkur of December 12, 1968 that you can see "an ever lighter clover structure [...] behind which a shadowy dragon creature stretches and flutters." The dying chicken is a "shock ending with a thick symbol" .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Gregor: History of the film from 1960. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-570-00816-9 , p. 176.
  2. ↑ Christine Noll Brinckmann: Experimental film, 1920–1990 in: Wolfgang Jacobsen, Anton Kaes, Hans Helmut Prinzler (eds.): History of German film. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar 1993, ISBN 3-476-00883-5 , p. 432.
  3. ^ Page about the film on wernernekes.de
  4. ↑ quoted on wernernekes.de

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