2012 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.

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

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

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http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/tags-on-product/300035154X/ref=tag_dpp_cust_edpp_sa

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Opening April 16 in Los Angeles - The Art Of Passion

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           The Art of Passion

         

     Trouvailles 

     By 

    Eckhart Schmidt

The "Art of Passion" is a passionate Trip to the world of Glamour, Beauty and Femininity.


The images celebrate the woman of today – while featuring critical undertones.


It´s like dancing on a volcano or along the San Andreas Fault.


You enjoy the ride, but you know the glam-games can be over any second.

Coming to a gallery on Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood.

April 15-29, 2011

The gallery will be named on the invitation

Who´s afraid of Eckhart Schmidt?

The Filmmaker

He shot one of the most controversial international cult films („Der Fan“ aka „Trance“) and most recently completed an experimental film entitled “Hollywood Fling”.

“Daily Variety” executive editor Steven Gaydos calls this film: “Disturbing. Radical. Provocative. Innovative.”

The Documentarian

Eckhart’s long list of documentaries includes the Myth of Hollywood, Jerry Lewis, Jane Russell, Las Vegas and  Sunset Boulevard –over 60 full length works for German television in total. CalArts media historian Norman Klein on those films: “No one else has filmed  a more complete  30-year-history of LA and Hollywood.” Currently Schmidt is completing two projects, a doc called “Hollywood Scandals” and a film about “Baby Doll”-Star Carroll Baker.

The Photographer

He is a successful photographer of Los Angeles topics shooting photographic cycles called Window Girls, Mulholland Drive – Opening Scenes, Dreaming LA, LA Africa, Stranded Downtown LA and Hollywoodland.  His photos were shown in more than 20 exhibits in Germany and Los Angeles.

The Painter

In his painting, as in his films and in his work as a photographer he is celebrating women, glamour and the world of dreams with sometimes critical undertones. With his multi-faceted creative activity Eckhart Schmidt reminds of Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel or David Lynch.

Eckhart Schmidt: “My starting point are things that I see and feel, that I want to express sometimes on film, sometimes in a doc, sometimes in photography and sometimes in a painting. Every media has its own rules, its own forms of expression, challenges and possibilities. What I photograph I cannot film and what I paint I cannot film or photograph. I´m happy to show my paintings for the first times in Los Angeles – the city that  I have loved for more than 30 years. For me it´s the most beautiful, exiting and inspiring city in the world.”