Kurt Kren Movies
- 1965
10c/65: Brus wishes his Christmas on you
10c/65: Brus wishes his Christmas on you2.51965HD
A kind of home movie made in Brus' apartment. Brus' Christmas wishes can be seen on a poster which he painted and which he holds for a short time in...
- 1968
20/68: Schatzi
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In Schatzi Kurt Kren films a photo which shows an SS officer standing on a town square which is littered with dead bodies.
- 1966
12/66: Cosinus Alpha
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Kren’s last film to include any direct reference to Otto Muehl is 12/66: Cosinus Alpha, a 10-minute film that completes a cycle of elaborate...
- 1973
29/73 Ready-Made
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In a TV film about the film Casablanca, Kren is meant to read aloud three letters that Groucho Marx wrote to Warner Bros., because they wanted to...
- 1960
2/60: 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test
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Kren's second film and the first he cut according to a strictly serial, sequence technique: in various frame sizes, the 48 portraits from the Szondi...
- 1956
Rome
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Vacation pictures from Rome.
- 1968
18/68: Venecia kaputt
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A short film by Kurt Kren.
- 2010
Becoming Otto
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A portrait of the Austrian avant-garde artist Otto Mühl/Muehl (1925-2013), whose work combined sex, violence, gastronomy and bodily effluence...
- 1967
16/67: September 20th
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A collage of many visuals. A man urinates; a man has a drink. A man defecates; someone eats a meal. 16/67 September 20: ‘The Eating Drinking...
- 1962
5/62: People Looking out of the Window, Trash, etc.
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Almost as if entering the picture frame by chance, mute characters lean out of Viennese apartment windows, simply to have a look.
- 1978
36/78: Rischart
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Hans-Peter Hochenrath and Birgit Hein made a documentary film about me for the Saarland Network and wanted me to make a self-portrait. Instead of...
- 1973
28/73: Time Exposure(s)
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A man's head is seen in silent close-up using single-frame shooting and time exposure.
- 1983
42/83: No Film
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"In 1983, I got a job as a museum attendant and abandoned film-making entirely. And so the question arose: "no film?," and the conclusion I came to...
- 1981
39/81 Which Way to CA?
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Kren on his way from Vermont to California. Kren says that his various cars are the thread which runs through the story. (Hans Scheugl)
- 1981
40/81 Breakfast im Grauen
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Kren in New Hampshire, New England. Together with friends he lived from the demolition of wooden houses and sale of the wood. Kren was the "nail...
- 1961
4/61: Walls Pos.-Neg. and Way
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The film uses slides - photographic planes - which show different surfaces and finishes of a wall, which have been erroded by time. Kren stacks the...
- 1995
49/95: thousandyearsofcinema
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The making of pictures becomes the central issue in itself in that, with an analytical single-picture procedure, picture-taking tourists on Vienna's...
- 1993
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3
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On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber, candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz, suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of...
- 1969
Scheiss-Kerl
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Another try by the Viennese actionists around Otto Mühl, trying to shock the middle-class bourgeoisie with all sorts of explicit sexual and...
- 1971
26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes
26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes6.21971HD
Zeichenfilm - Balzac oder das Auge Gottes is a play on the idea of trick film. And trick film it is. The 30-second work is shown twice in case the...