Guess: What have H.Billian + Andy Warhol in common

[FritztheBat]

No, Billian is not homosexual.

It has something to do with their Method of Shooting their Films (not all), Billian and Warhol, believe it or not.

Solution appears here tomorrow!

[FritztheBat]

Warhol shot his Film "Blue Movie" in just 1 Day, and so did Billian with one or several of his Direct-to-Video-Films in the late 90s.

[DavidS]

What films were they then? I did not think he made any after the Immerscharf series.

[FritztheBat]

He names them in the Interview he gave "Splatting Image", look for it.
Maybe they were shot earlier.

[DavidS]

Thank you Fritz. Unfortunately my German is not up to reading the article. I should be most interested to hear about any post Immerscharf films by Billian. Any further information you can provide would be appreciated.

[ArchiPoeta]

Q:"Sie hatten also niemals vor, etwas "ganz anderes" zu machen, etwas weniger kommerzielles...

[Hans Billian:] Nein, mir hat das, was ich getan habe, immer sehr gelegen, ich habe mich wohl gef?hlt dabei. Ich habe immer versucht, ein gewisses Niveau zu halten. Das tue ich heute noch. Es ist unglaublich, was f?r ein Mist produziert wird, gerade auf dem Porno-Sektor. Es wird ja auch kein Geld mehr reingesteckt. Ich drehe jetzt einen 85-Minuten-Film an EINEM Tag, das mu? man sich mal vorstellen! Die Leute im Studio, wenn der Film dann zusammengemixt wird, staunen h?ufig, da? ich nur einen Drehtag gebraucht habe. Da kommt mir meine Routine von fr?her halt sehr gelegen. Man kann einen Film durch geschickten Schnitt, geschickte Aufteilung der Schaupl?tze etc. wesentlich besser aussehen lassen. So macht es manchmal den Eindruck, als habe mehr Zeit zur Verf?gung gestanden. Die Bedingungen sind aber absolut trostlos."

quote from splatting image interview

this interview with H.B. took place in 1996. therefore it is very probable H.B. means an episode of "Familie Immerscharf".
he was complaining about the current working conditions which would force him to shoot a 85 min movie within a day. only his routine & experience would make a better product out of the raw shooting than actually possible.
his last sentence above: "but the conditions are absolutely bleak."

greetings AP

[DavidS]

Thank you for this information AP. It would probably confirm that Immerscharf was his last films. I also wonder if this is the reason why Immerscharf teil 5 - 8 were so substantially different from the first four. It has often been assumed the change of style was the result of Billian not be the director, but this may indicate that he had to change the style of the last four out of (financial?) necessity.

[FritztheBat]

I?m sorry, i thought that you are one of the Germans in this Forum.

I will read the Interview again and tell you more then here, at the moment i have no Time, but before Easter i think.

Cheers

[FritztheBat]

I have just read that AP did this Job.

If i get something new about Maestro Billian, i will announce it here or in a new Topic.

Cheers

Fritz