13Bit Interview With Manny Kirchheimer Part 8
We recently had the good fortune to visit with Manny Kirchheimer, filmmaking legend as well as low budget legend.
Manny is best known for his groundbreaking work in “Stations of the Elevated,” as well as “We Were So Beloved.”
Legendary editor, director, teacher and mentor to many filmmakers, Manny was gracious to recently talk to us about filmmaking, life and, of course, the philosophy of low-budget filmmaking. We at 13BIT are not afraid to say that we love Manny for his philosophy and his artistic integrity.
Enjoy!
13BIT:
Who’s that? (POINTS TO PRINT)
MANNY K:
That’s Max Frisch. I just —
13BIT:
Max Frisch.
MANNY K:
–bought that yesterday, but I’m going to get rid of it. Max Frisch, a Swiss writer, novelist and playwright. But, it’s by Otto Dix — it’s by the great Otto Dix. It was thrown in. I bought a lot of four, for other reasons. And, all right, this is almost done. And it was thrown in, but I’m going to see if I can unload it. Here, this is what I really wanted to buy. This one, Tocaro — this is from 1854, and the Feininger, beautiful.
13BIT:
This is phenomenal.
MANNY K:
Yes.
13BIT:
What fine lines.
MANNY K:
Yeah. Cliché-Verre, there. A very, very rarely used technique where they put — this is 1854, and it’s something like dust on a photo emulsion.
13BIT:
Wow.
MANNY K:
And then you draw on the dust, and then you expose. I guess you do it in the dark room with a red light or —
13BIT:
That’s cool, right, right.
MANNY K:
–something, and then you develop it. That is the dust, the fine lines, you know, is where the light can then hit right. So then you expose it. Then you develop it, and then you make this from the negative, or something like that.
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