Brus, Günter, Kurt Kren, Otto Muehl, and other artists.

[VIDEO ART BY THE VIENNA ACTIONISTS] P.A.P. Film: Karlheinz + Renate Hein. Z-Folded leaflet and one sheet of list (in two copies).

Munich, P.A.P. Film, [1971/72]. Quarto (29.8 × 21 cm). Two-sided printed Z-fold leaflet with three full-page video stills. Title with address stamps of “P.A.P. Film” and of a Munich artists' association. Very good. Item #55034

Catalog of the film sales and distribution company “Progressive Art Production”, founded by Karlheinz Hein in 1969. Together with the Swiss conceptual artist Dieter Meier, Hein was active not only as a distributor but also as a curator and producer of films and performances – primarily featuring the Viennese Actionists. Provocative actions and scandals were not least a means of distribution. Notable among these are the Expanded Cinema performances by Valie Export and Peter Weibel, such as Tapp- und Tastkino. "Progressive Art Production" offered more than just artistic films for sale and distribution; it also organized film programs and Expanded Cinema performances in diverse settings—ranging from film and theater festivals to art fairs, museums, and counterculture venues. (cf. François Bovier, >blog.zhdk.ch/sfex/files/2015/11/Bovier_Francois_PAP_Film_Implosion.pdf<, June 10, 2025.)

“'Political and pornographic films': these are two terms that, when considered together, appear to be almost emblematic of the strategy of the film gallery P.A.P. (...) with 'provocative' or scandalous performances by the Viennese actionists (...). In the films distributed by P. A.P., there is no trace of 'modernism' or 'formalism', but rather a series of processes, actions, events and performances whose principal vehicle (...) is the materiality of the body and the film material (...).” (transl. after Ibid.)

The leaflet introduces the life and work of the following artists with short texts: Marc Adrian, Otmar Bauer, Stan Brakhage, Günter Brus, Stephan Dwoskin, Peter Gidal, Birgit and Wilhelm Hein, Takahiko Limura, Hans Peter Kochenrath, Fritz André Kracht, Kurt Kren, Vlado Kristl, Malcolm LeGrice, Gregory Markopoulos, Dieter Meier, Robert Nelson, Otto Muehl, Klaus Schnönherr, and Paul Shartis.

As of September 2025, not in KVK, OCLC.