Selected Filmography Experimental Film WorkCarl Wiedemann: Cinematography / Art Direction / Camera Op'
Fundamentals of the Stoma 
(2003) 16mm on video, 20 minutes.
Four characters inhabit a film noir landscape of decaying buildings and surreal speech patterns. Motivations are oblique, postures are severe, and chain-smoking is mandatory.
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Viscera + Vitriol
(2003) stock footage on digital video, 5:30
James Stewart is dissected to perverse ends.
Effigies of William Frawley
(2003) 16mm, 8mm + VHS on DV, 4:30
A rap tribute to Bub + Camus. View lyrics here
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Poke
(2001) 16mm on video, 1 minute
A tragic encounter on a desolate railway.
A Primer for Dental Extraction
(2000) 16mm, 5 minutes (video cut - 1999, 16mm print release 2000)
The protagonist aggressively cleans her teeth and chain-smokes. Pursued by the camera, she assaults it repeatedly.
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Panic Management
(1995) Hi-8 video, 2 minutes
Irritant #5
(1993) VHS video, 1 minute
To Henry Ford My Soul Will Creep
(1992) Wanton destruction on 16mm, 3 minutes
Track and Derange
(1991, radically re-cut in 2004) 16mm, 3 minutes
One in a series of Rust Belt Music Videos. Photographed in the ruins of Buffalo and Chicago.
Bertrand Russell
(1989) Stock footage hacked up on U-matic video
Stolen footage combines with home-made Industrial Disco for inflated masculine posturing. Derails at the half-way point and becomes a tribute to British philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Convulsive
(1989) 16mm on video, 5 minutes
"Wiedemann writches through a series of industrial landscapes like a convulsing electrical cord." (VIPFILM 8 program, 1990 Berlin, Germany)
Spray Paint
(1987) 16mm, 3 minutes
Highly abused 16mm film. Original footage shot at a vacated, cement processing facility. Soundtrack: several tape-loops of breaking glass recorded in the same abandoned, concrete shells.
Hypodermic Torso
(1987)
1919
(1986) 16mm film.
Gary Thomas meticulously portrays The Man. Is he stealing souls or incinerating documents? Anonymous un-shod feet repeatedly protrude into the frame.
Illiteracy
(1986, re-mastered as "Upstate, New York: A Regressive Biography" in 2003)
16mm, 9 minutes.
The dark introspection that characterizes childhood.
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Ceiling Panels
(1985) 16mm, 5 minutes
A bout of surrealism.
Shclorm
(1983) super-8, 18 minutes
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Critiques
- " If F.W. Murnau could have lived long enough to direct a Tool video, it might have looked something like this wildly neurotic short from director Carl Wiedemann. The camera, utilizing multiple angles, lenses and frame-rates, pursues the protagonist through a series of gritty, industrial landscapes, intercut with other nightmarish images. The sound design is as dynamic as the visuals." - The Flagpole Magazine Online, October, 18 2000.
- "Weird.. experiment shot in Chicago.. among the industrial ruins. Solo actress Dominique Gallo is oddly charismatic in that Sandra Bernhard-meets-Tetsuo sort of way." - The Champaign-Urbana Octopus, October 27, 2000.
- "A Primer for Dental Extraction, recently awarded top honors at the Seattle Underground Film Fest, is the standout of the program--a meaningless, post-industrial meander replete with a mad woman with big teeth." - from The Stranger.com's preview of Independent Exposure's Halloweird show, October 26, 2000.
- "a visually striking (reminiscent of Fritz Lang) rumination on dentistry as a metaphor for psychological pain." - L.A. Weekly, December 1999.
- "Filmmaker Carl Wiedemann's stark imagery, deft camera work and haunting cinematography recall David Lynch's groundbreaking Eraserhead." - Film Threat On-line, February 5, 2001.
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