Movies: Kurt Kren
- 1980
Exit... But No Panic (1980)
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A guy having sex with a woman on a rooftop – just to get her coffee-machine....
- 1997
Birth of a Nation (1997)
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Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....
- 1997
The 120 Days of Bottrop (1997)
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An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking....
- 2010
Becoming Otto (2010)
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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 with unbridled abandon....
- 1967
15/67: TV (1967)
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Kren frames the image to suggest a proscenium, with a view to the harbor that conveys a literal sense of “tele-vision”. The static framing of the image and the clearly stratified mise-en-scène can hardly provoke interpretation. The sight of the girls...
- 1964
6/64: Mom and Dad (An Otto Mühl Happening) (1964)
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In the first action he filmed, 6/64 Mama und Papa, Kren’s editing leads to many interlocking continuous shots; central takes recur like a leitmotif, circular motion and networking can be observed throughout the film. Kren painstakingly weaves the fur...
- 1984
43/84: 1984 (1984)
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Kurt Kren recorded the last television debate in the Reagan/Mondale election campaign. In the viewfinder, the television filled the entire picture, but the viewfinder did not match the lens entirely so that the television screen in the picture was ve...
- 1978
37/78: Tree Again (1978)
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At the center are takes which do not change - a tree in a field in Vermont, U.S.A. Since the film was shot over a period of fifty days, the single frame shots create a storm of pictures....
- 1965
10/65: Self-Mutilation (1965)
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Kren’s 10/65 Selfmutilation is developed from a Gunter Brus “action”. What the film emphasizes is the surrealistic drama of symbolic self-destruction that Kren drew out of Brus’ action, pacing out each gesture so that one gets a tense, iconoclastic r...
- 1960
3/60: Trees in Autumn (1960)
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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 is constrained within a systematic or structural procedure, incidentally the precursors of the most struct...
- 1968
Satisfaction (1968)
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An experimental, bizarre and a very different shooting of an association between the sexes....
- 1975
31/75: Asylum (1975)
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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 camera, which finally reveals a complete panorama. The landscape changes with the advancing seasons and...
- 1965
10c/65: Brus wishes his Christmas on you (1965)
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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 front of the camera....
- 1971
The Lascivious Wotan (1971)
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A subversive and experimental film by Otto Muehl....
- 1993
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3 (1993)
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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 the German Reichstag. He was taken up in the mental clinic of the Leipzig University soon afterwards. T...
- 1965
10b/65: Silver – Action Brus (1965)
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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 out to be better than the original material and so Kren did show the film. The film's title relates to Bru...
- 1971
26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes (1971)
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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 viewer missed something the first time: in crude hand-drawn animation Zeichenfilm ... evokes the scatol...
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
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Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years....
- 1966
12/66: Cosinus Alpha (1966)
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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 sensual montages and materials....
- 1967
16/67: September 20th (1967)
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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 Shitting Pissing Film'....