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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2014.199
People
Rebecca Horn, German (Michelstadt, Germany 1944 - 2024 Bad König, Germany)
Title
Rebecca Horn Films
Classification
Portfolios
Work Type
portfolio
Date
2003
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/351639

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Portfolio with all extant films by the artist on 3 DVDs (PAL) and a signed C-print, Cockfeather Mask, Performances 2, 1973/2003
Dimensions
Dimensions vary with installation

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Rebecca Horn, sold; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2014.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in memory of Eda K. Loeb
Copyright
© Rebecca Horn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2014
Object Number
2014.199
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Performances 1, documentation of performances:
Körperfarbe (Body Paint): Rote Glieder (Red Limbs); Blau-Blau-Blau (Blue-Blue-Blue); Rotbrust (Red Breast); Zunehmendes Schwarz (Black Expansion)
Haare Wachsen—Bad Dream (Growing Hair—Bad Dream)
Hahnengefieder (Black Cockfeathers)
Balancestab (Head Balance)
Schwarze Hörner (Shoulder Extensions)
Federkleid (Feather Instrument)
16mm, color, 22 minutes; Camera: B. Liebner, K. P. Brehmer; video edition includes supplementary performances from 1970 and 1971

SIMON-SIGMAR, with Sigmar Polke
16 mm, color, sound, 3 minutes ©1971 Rebecca Horn

Performances 2, documentation of performances:
Einhorn (Unicorn)
Kopfextension (Head Extension)
Weißer Körperfächer (White Body Fan)
Handschuhfinger (Finger Gloves)
Federfinger (Feather Finger)
Gavin
Hahnenmaske (Cockfeather Mask)
Bleistiftmaske (Pencil Mask)
Kakadoo (Cockatoo)
16mm, color, sound, 38 minutes; Production: Helmut Wietz; with D. Finke, Gavin, Karin Halding, E. Mitzka

Berlin (10 Nov. 1974 – 28 Jan. 1975) – Exercises in nine parts: Dreaming under water of things afar, documentation of eight performances with an epilogue: Touching the walls with both hands simultaneously, Blinking, Feathers dance on the shoulders, Keeping hold of those unfaithful legs, Two little fish remember a dance, Rooms meet in mirrors, Shedding skin between moist tongue leaves, Cutting one’s hair with two pairs of scissors simultaneously, When a woman and her lover lie on one side looking at each other; and she twines her legs around the man’s legs with the window wide open, it is the oasis; 16mm, color, sound, 42 minutes; Production: Helmut Wietz; with Rebecca Horn, Guido Kerst, Lisa Liccini, Otto Sander, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Michel Würthle

Der Eintänzer, 16mm, color, sound, 47 minutes, English language, full-length feature film; Written and directed by: Rebecca Horn, Production and Camera: Bodo Kessler, Camera assistant: Peter Schnall, Editor: Inge Kuhnert, Sound: Morning Pastorak, Voice-over: Rebecca Horn, Collaboration on objects: Dieter Müller; with Timothy Baum (Max), Greta Konstantinescu (Geta), Elisabeth Martin (Mary), Kathleen Martin (Kathleen), Nada (Sushi-Chef), David Warrilow (Frazer) and Kim Araki, Lisa Friedmann, Kristina Maria Jaroshenka, Susanne Diana Lee, Donna Ritchie

La Ferdinanda: Sonata for a Medici Villa, 35mm, color, sound, 85 minutes, German language, full-length feature film, a co-production with the Westdeutsche Rundfunk, Cologne; Written and directed by: Rebecca Horn, Assistant Director: Fabio Jephcott, Camera: Jiri Kadanka, Camera assistant: Rainer März, Editor: Inge Kuhnert, Assistant editor: Ulrike Zimmermann, Music: Ingfried Hoffmann, Lighting: Heinz Stellmacher, Gerhard Lange, Sound: Christian Moldt, Norman Engel, Objects and design: Rebecca Horn, Decor: Ida Gianelli, Costumes: Janken Jansen, Make-up: Cesare Paciotti, Hair styling: Luciana Maria Constanzi, Line producers: Sarah Blum, Cesare Landriccina; with Valentina Cortese (Caterina de Dominicis), Javier Escriba (Dr. Marchetti), Gisela Hahn (Paola), Hans Peter Hallwachs (Commissar Bella), Michael Maisky (Mischa Boguslawsky), Daniele Passani (Larry Jones), Rita Poelvoorde (Simona), David
Warrilow (Richard Sutherland) and Maurizio Caratozzolo, Pietra and Armona Pistoletto, Renate Reiche, Francisco Ricasoli

Buster’s Bedroom, 35mm, color, sound, 104 minutes, English language, full-length feature film, a co-production with Metropolis Filmproduktion GmbH & Co KG, Berlin, Les Productions du Verseau, Montreal, and Prole Film LDA, Lisbon, in co-operation with Limbo Film AG, Zürich, and the Westdeutsche Rundfunk, Cologne; Directed by: Rebecca Horn, Screenplay: Rebecca Horn and Martin Mosebach, based on a story by Rebecca Horn, Produced by: George Reinhart, Camera: Sven Nykvist, Editor: Barbara von Weitershausen, Sound editor: Gisela Lüpke, Assistant sound editor: Oliver Gieth, Carla Bogalheiro, Art direction: Nana von Hugo, Music: Sergej Kuryokhin, Ingfried Hoffmann, Sound: Uwe Kersten, Costume designer: Françoise Laplante, Construction of objects: Hasje Boeyen, Production: Luciano Gloor, Line producer: Udo Heiland; with Donald Sutherland (O’Connor), Geraldine Chaplin (Diana Daniels), Valentina Cortese (Serafina Tannenbaum), Taylor Mead (James), Amanda Ooms (Micha Morgan), Ari Snyder (Lenny Silver), David Warrilow (Mr. Warlock), Martin Wuttke (Joe) and Maria Dulce, Abel Fernandes, Nina Franoszek, Tilly Lauenstein, Lena Lessing, Steve Olson, Mary Woronow

Cutting Through the Past, a documentary by Rebecca Horn for the retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, with a conversation between Donald Sutherland and Rebecca Horn; 16mm, color, sound, 55 minutes, English language

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