Kurt Kren Movies

  • 1960
    3/60: Trees in Autumn

    3/60: Trees in Autumn

    3/60: Trees in Autumn

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    The first embodiment of (a) concept of structural activity in cinema comes in Kren's Bäume im Herbst, where the camera as a subjective observer...

    3/60: Trees in Autumn
  • 1971
    26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes

    26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes

    26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes

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    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...

    26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes
  • 1969
    22/69 Happy-End

    22/69 Happy-End

    22/69 Happy-End

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    Kurt Kren filmed pieces of feature films in the cinema without looking through the viewfinder. The missing sexual climax from the cinema was added by...

    22/69 Happy-End
  • 1968
    Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten

    Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten

    Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten

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    Four men, one woman and a cat in a room. The men drink and discuss. Things get a bit violent. The masochist acts out his desires by himself. Random...

    Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten
  • 1970
    24/70 Western

    24/70 Western

    24/70 Western

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    Kurt Kren films an anti-war poster in extreme close-up moves to subvert the quick responses of viewers to its loaded imagery.

    24/70 Western
  • 1973
    29/73 Ready-Made

    29/73 Ready-Made

    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...

    29/73 Ready-Made
  • 1965
    10b/65: Silver – Action Brus

    10b/65: Silver – Action Brus

    10b/65: Silver – Action Brus

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    "Action" by Günter Brus. At first Kren did not want to show the film, because the image is underexposed. A copy of the negative material turned...

    10b/65: Silver – Action Brus
  • 1957
    1/57: Experiment with Synthetic Sound (Test)

    1/57: Experiment with Synthetic Sound (Test)

    1/57: Experiment with Synthetic Sound (Test)

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    Mostly dark, rejecting images which are repeated. A stone wall, the chamber of a revolver which is, at first not recognizable, a close-up of a...

    1/57: Experiment with Synthetic Sound (Test)
  • 1976
    34/76: Tschibo

    34/76: Tschibo

    34/76: Tschibo

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    This film shows, with the use of single-frames, Kren's diary-like notes from 1968 to 1976, especially his entries about the work on the three...

    34/76: Tschibo
  • 1969
    Scheiss-Kerl

    Scheiss-Kerl

    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...

    Scheiss-Kerl
  • 1973
    30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam

    30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam

    30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam

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    Kren shows the cinema (mentioned in the title) during and after film presentations. He uses single-frame and time exposures 5 to 30 seconds long....

    30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam
  • 1964
    9/64: O Christmas Tree

    9/64: O Christmas Tree

    9/64: O Christmas Tree

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    In 9/64 O Christmas Tree Kren offers a more visually descriptive development of a Muehl "action". The images have been chosen to follow a more...

    9/64: O Christmas Tree
  • 1956
    Das Walk

    Das Walk

    Das Walk

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    A "stroll" at various locations: the St. Marx Cemetery, the Prater park, Carnuntum. We see people taking walks, construction workers, people flying...

    Das Walk
  • 1967
    16/67: September 20th

    16/67: September 20th

    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...

    16/67: September 20th
  • 1956
    Piano Salon 1. Floor

    Piano Salon 1. Floor

    Piano Salon 1. Floor

    01956HD

    A silent short film by Kurt Kren.

    Piano Salon 1. Floor
  • 1975
    31/75: Asylum

    31/75: Asylum

    31/75: Asylum

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    A meadow, a lake, the silhouette of a hill, trees. 21 days of the same view in Saarland. 21 days with five different cut-outs in a mask before the...

    31/75: Asylum
  • 1969
    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

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    Ludwig Schönherr | Federal Republic of Germany | 1969 | 18 fps | 3'25" | silent

    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren
  • 1968
    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    01968HD

    A short film by Kurt Kren.

    18/68: Venecia kaputt
  • 1979
    38/79: Sentimental Punk

    38/79: Sentimental Punk

    38/79: Sentimental Punk

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    'It was in San Francisco at a punk festival. I was already high and the air was so thick in the rooms that you could cut it with a knife. I had a...

    38/79: Sentimental Punk
  • 1997
    Homage to Kurt Kren

    Homage to Kurt Kren

    Homage to Kurt Kren

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    A homage to the Austrian experimental filmmaker Kurt Kren, his two films "1000 Years of Cinema" and "Snapspots" and his way of working; and that with...

    Homage to Kurt Kren