mono.kultur #19 Michael Ballhaus: Gentleman with a Movie Camera Smalltime Books he came to Brooklyn via

he came to Brooklyn via Germany in 1949 and began shooting his first films there

Using an automatic drawing method called frottage (developed by Max Ernst in the 1920s) these rubbings were created using sheets of drawing paper and a selection of colored graphite sticks

And while visual stimuli only enter our brain via a complex process of neuronal translations

the impossibility of repetition

mono.kultur #19 Michael Ballhaus: Gentleman with a Movie Camera Smalltime Books he came to Brooklyn viaWith mono. kultur (Berlin), Michael Ballhaus talks about signs of greatness, his work with Fassbinder and Scorsese, and how too big a budget can ruin a film. In a homage to the moving images, this issue comes in a Technicolor landscape format, white on black. 36 pages 15 x 20 cm, mono. kultur (Berlin).