Herma Auguste Wittstock studied Fine Arts at Braunschweig University of Art from 1999 bis 2004 with professors Mara Mattuschka, performance artist Marina Abramović and film maker Birgit Hein.
The term was coined by P. Adams Sitney who noted that film artists such as Michael Snow, Hollis Frampton, George Landow (aka Owen Land), Paul Sharits, Tony Conrad, Joyce Wieland, Ernie Gehr, Birgit and Wilhelm Hein, Kurt Kren, and Peter Kubelka had moved away from the complex and condensed forms of cinema practiced by such artists as Sidney Peterson and Stan Brakhage.
Birgit Nilsson | Piet Hein | Birgit Hein | Piet Pieterszoon Hein | Hein-Direck Neu | Birgit Prinz | Birgit Großhennig | Birgit Bidder | Piet Hein (Denmark) | Michael P. Hein | Hein Vergeer | Hein Verbruggen | Hein Mevissen | Birgit Vanderbeke | Birgit Schuurman | Birgit Minichmayr | Birgit Cullberg | Moe Hein | Lee Hein | Jon Hein | Jeppe Hein | Hein ter Poorten | Hein Heckroth | Hans Hein Theodor Nysom | Franz Hein | Birgit Strøm | Birgit Schrowange | Birgit Ridderstedt | Birgit Õigemeel | Birgit Klomp |