New Book and DVD Releases By Eckhart Schmidt aka Raoul Sternberg

2012 shapes up to be a very busy and prolific year for Eckhart Schmidt. Here some highlights!

Film and Photography:

• 2011 was a year of high activity. Two new documentaries have been produced and broadcast – “Hollywood Scandals” and “Hollywood's Walk of Fame”. Both films received high ratings and raving reviews.
• In early 2012 Eckhart shot and finished editing a film about L.A.'s fight against the art of graffiti. The project was shot all over L.A. including in the most hidden and dangerous locations. Title: “The Last Graffiti Show”. This film will come into theaters later this year.
• 2012: Following in the footsteps of the DVD release success of “Hollywood Fling”, Eckhart began to shoot another feature film in the same raw cinematographic style. Title of the new feature project: “Confessions Of A Girl In Love”.

• Furthermore Eckhart finished shooting and editing a project called “Motel Girls” and a documentary called “Stripped – Naked – Nude”. Both will be released in April. The accompanying book “Motel Girls” will be published in June by Belleville Verlag

Art and Literature:

• 2011: Two international exhibits for “The Art of Passion", Los Angeles and Munich.
• 2012:  Eckhart showed a selection of his art work from  "The Last Graffiti Show" at the renowned Stephen Hoffman Gallery in Munich, entitled L.A. Street Art. The show received high attention from press and public.
• 2011 Eckhart Schmidt published  a double novel called “Hotel/Minorella”, two shocking stories about the young generation.

• 2012 published Eckhart “Corridos – Stories”, 12 Stories about passion and death, glamour and violence in Hollywood and Mexico.

• Coming in the Summer of 2012: the photo book “Motel Girls” and a new novel entitled “Club Girl – Death of a Club Girls”, both to be published by Belleville in June.

Eckhart Schmidt just finished writing his memoirs entitled “Stich-Worte”. The book will come out end of the year.

Cedar Sinai Presents: HOLLYWOOD AND ITS SILENT FILM ERA "Silent Hollywood"

CEDARS-SINAI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO AN EVENING DEDICATED TO
HOLLYWOOD AND ITS SILENT FILM ERA
"Silent Hollywood"

SPECIAL GUESTS: THE WORLD'S GREAT AUTHORITIES ON THE US AND EUROPEAN SILENT FILM HERITAGE
   
               ROGER MAYER -- Motion Picture Academy OSCAR recipient (Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) and EMMY award winner for his documentary on Judy Garland.  First Vice Chairman of the  Board of Motion Pictures and Television Fund and, until  recently, the Library of Congress' Chairman of the National Film Preservation and Restoration  Foundation.


                JAN-CHRISTOPH HORAK -- Director of UCLA Film and TelevisionArchive.  Formerly, Director of Universal Studio's Archives and Collectibles, Director of the Munich Film Museum and Senior Curator of Films at George Eastman House.


                ECKHART SCHMIDT -- Director-Writer-Producer of "Silent Hollywood" and numerous acclaimed European feature films The film "Silent Hollywood" shows the genesis of the American Silent Film art form and its great impact on civilization.
         
ECHART SCHMIDT AND JAN-CHRISTOPHER HORAK WILL BE
AVAILABLE FOR A Q&A SESSION FOLLOWING THE SCREENING.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011

6:00 pm - registration & socializing - 6:30 pm - presentation
(Light refreshments provided)
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
HARVEY MORSE AUDITORIUM - PLAZA LEVEL
ADMISSION
$15    GENERAL PUBLIC/CSMC EMPLOYEES
$  5     PAID ALUMNI MEMBERS
$  5     IN-TRAINING

Kindly contribute at the door -- cash/checks Only!
Validated Parking in CSMC Lots 1, 2, 4 Only – No validation for Medical Office Tower parking

Coming to Amazon.com: Two Novels by Raoul Sternberg aka Eckhart Schmidt

Now available to pre-order:
"Minorella, Tagebuch einer 16-jährigen & Hotel".

Please click the link to get to Amazon:
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/tags-on-product/300035154X/ref=tag_dpp_cust_edpp_sa

New on YouTube: "Virgin/Vergine" - A FotoVision

Virgin/Vergine

Starring Ester Vinci
Words: Francesco Petrarca
Music: Toti Basso
Voices: Evita Giardinelli and Massimo Marano

a FotoVision by Eckhart Schmidt

New on YouTube: Eckhart's music video for Joni Allen!

New From Eckhart Schmidt: FotoVision - an innovative media project

Eckhart Schmidt is following up RomaAmor with the second part of his Hollywoodland Cycle, "Stranded Downtown" - the new FotoVision project.

FotoVision was conceived by Eckhart Schmidt as an innovative media project presenting a new format combining Photography, Poetry and Music.

First Reactions to my Forbidden Film

The Innovative Camera Style Movie: "Hollywood Fling" by Raoul Sternberg

It’s a story about girls. They check in to Hollywood, but they never check out. It’s the story about a serial killer.

Shot with the Flip Ultra HD Camera. This is the first full length feature film shot with this new camera system.

The camera is the serial killer. The camera hunts the girls. The camera has sex with them. The camera kills them.

Germany’s renowned movie critic Hans Schifferle (“Süddeutsche Zeitung”) says about “Hollywood Fling”:

“It´s the first real camera style movie. The camera writes the story. A masterpiece.”

Norman Klein, Professor at the California Institute of the Arts and at UCLA writes about “Hollywood Fling”:

“A serial killer’s seeing machine: Through the eye of a small digital camera, we observe his sensual, indulgent, perverse journey. He is watching twenty-year old girls, begins to seduce them, than suffocates them. Here is the way to imagine a new poetic, a new film grammar.

What I see more clearly is the apparatus itself, a camera so intuitive that it seems to be part of the clothing worn by the killer. Today, the computer has embedded itself into architectural space, and into every simple act of intimacy. It invades our private secrets like a household pet watching us have sex. It helps us watch ourselves, as if we were visiting our body along with the cat. That sense of apparatus give this film a unique sense of risk-- not because it plays with a familiar plot; but because it turns one character literally into a "seeing machine." The computer eye literally commits murder, with speeches from the Frankenstein monster; but also like a chicken crossing the road.

This is also a film about the anxiety of dissolution, in the midst of a vast economic change, a future that promises very little for Americans. The murderer becomes a digital apparatus, like the mind in entropy. But entropy is always a form of decay.”

DATA
Writer/DOP/Director: Raoul Sternberg
Cast: Daphney Rose, Jasna Novosel, Jolene Anderson, Tee, Callan Wilheim, Crsystal Rodriguez, India DeLaCruz
Shot on Flip Ultra HD in Los Angeles/
Length: 93 Minutes
Produced by Preview Release, Palm Production, Hollywood Fling Films 2010
Contact: Eckhart.Schmidt@r-film.de