Kurt Kren Movies
- 1960
3/60: Trees in Autumn
3/60: Trees in Autumn6.41960HD
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...
- 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...
- 1969
22/69 Happy-End
22/69 Happy-End01969HD
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...
- 1968
Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten
Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten01968HD
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...
- 1970
24/70 Western
24/70 Western01970HD
Kurt Kren films an anti-war poster in extreme close-up moves to subvert the quick responses of viewers to its loaded imagery.
- 1973
29/73 Ready-Made
29/73 Ready-Made01973HD
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...
- 1965
10b/65: Silver – Action Brus
10b/65: Silver – Action Brus4.51965HD
"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...
- 1957
1/57: Experiment with Synthetic Sound (Test)
1/57: Experiment with Synthetic Sound (Test)4.41957HD
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...
- 1976
34/76: Tschibo
34/76: Tschibo61976HD
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...
- 1969
Scheiss-Kerl
Scheiss-Kerl11969HD
Another try by the Viennese actionists around Otto Mühl, trying to shock the middle-class bourgeoisie with all sorts of explicit sexual and...
- 1973
30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam
30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam01973HD
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....
- 1964
9/64: O Christmas Tree
9/64: O Christmas Tree5.81964HD
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...
- 1956
Das Walk
Das Walk01956HD
A "stroll" at various locations: the St. Marx Cemetery, the Prater park, Carnuntum. We see people taking walks, construction workers, people flying...
- 1967
16/67: September 20th
16/67: September 20th2.31967HD
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...
- 1956
Piano Salon 1. Floor
Piano Salon 1. Floor01956HD
A silent short film by Kurt Kren.
- 1975
31/75: Asylum
31/75: Asylum4.81975HD
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...
- 1969
Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren
Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren01969HD
Ludwig Schönherr | Federal Republic of Germany | 1969 | 18 fps | 3'25" | silent
- 1968
18/68: Venecia kaputt
18/68: Venecia kaputt01968HD
A short film by Kurt Kren.
- 1979
38/79: Sentimental Punk
38/79: Sentimental Punk3.51979HD
'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...
- 1997
Homage to Kurt Kren
Homage to Kurt Kren01997HD
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...