Kurt Kren

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

06 de nov. de 1997

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 i...

20 de jun. de 1967

Kren’s 10/65 Selfmutilation is developed from a Gunter Brus “action”. What the film emphasizes is the surrealistic drama of symbolic self-destructi...

01 de jan. de 1965

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...

01 de jan. de 1964

This three-minute film was far more akin to the American-style "happening" in that the content was not particularly extreme. It was built up from i...

01 de jan. de 1964

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 ...

01 de jan. de 1978

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 cact...

01 de jan. de 1957

Based on a Muehl Happening. The almost convulsive use of juxtaposition reappears here, but the captured gesture assumes a more erotic sensitivity, ...

01 de jan. de 1964

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 ...

01 de jan. de 1960

Kurt Kren recorded the last television debate in the Reagan/Mondale election campaign. In the viewfinder, the television filled the entire picture,...

03 de set. de 1984

"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...

01 de jan. de 1965

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 i...

01 de jan. de 1965

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 t...

11 de set. de 1973

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 Shitt...

01 de jan. de 1967

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 p...

01 de jan. de 1978

A man's head is seen in silent close-up using single-frame shooting and time exposure.

11 de set. de 1973

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 Szond...

01 de jan. de 1960

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 dram...

01 de jan. de 1964

Kurt Kren records snapshots of visitors to Vienna who are photographed in front of the statue of Johann Strauss Jr.

03 de set. de 1996

'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 p...

01 de out. de 1979

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 sensua...

01 de jan. de 1966

"It became easier to understand Kren's method of approaching film when he illustrated his matter-of-factness with a story: he was asked to shoot an...

01 de jan. de 1985

A short film by Kurt Kren.

23 de nov. de 1968

An experimental, bizarre and a very different shooting of an association between the sexes.

01 de jan. de 1968

A report about an Underground Festival on tour through Germany and Switzerland.

19 de mar. de 1969

The film uses slides - photographic planes - which show different surfaces and finishes of a wall, which have been erroded by time. Kren stacks the...

01 de jan. de 1961

I took a photograph of the view out of the window and had a very large negative made from it, which I fastened to the lens hood attacement in front...

01 de jan. de 1976

Sinus Beta is almost a sort of teaching film about bodily behavior in different situations. The film also produces, through the heterogenic photogr...

01 de jan. de 1967

In Schatzi Kurt Kren films a photo which shows an SS officer standing on a town square which is littered with dead bodies.

01 de jan. de 1968

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...

01 de abr. de 1968

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

16 de set. de 1970

A commission by Austrian TV station ORF documenting the anniversary celebration for Kunststücke.

01 de jan. de 1991

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

08 de mar. de 1969