Plot Summary:The series of portrait films that the Heins made between 1970-73 attest to their deepening interest in the movement generated solely through cinematic processes of reproduction.
By way of contrast Portraits is decidedly brisk: manipulated images of Charles Manson, Ronnie Biggs and Wilhelm Hein himself that once again focus on the tactile nature of the materials to hand. In effect it isn’t really Manson, Biggs or Hein who are on the receiving end of this portraits, but celluloid itself.