Kurt Kren Movies

  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1997
    The 120 Days of Bottrop

    The 120 Days of Bottrop

    The 120 Days of Bottrop

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

    The 120 Days of Bottrop
  • 1980
    Exit... But No Panic

    Exit... But No Panic

    Exit... But No Panic

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    A guy having sex with a woman on a rooftop – just to get her coffee-machine.

    Exit... But No Panic
  • 2010
    Becoming Otto

    Becoming Otto

    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...

    Becoming Otto
  • 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
  • 1971
    The Lascivious Wotan

    The Lascivious Wotan

    The Lascivious Wotan

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    A subversive and experimental film by Otto Muehl.

    The Lascivious Wotan
  • 1978
    36/78: Rischart

    36/78: Rischart

    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...

    36/78: Rischart
  • 1977
    33/77 No Danube

    33/77 No Danube

    33/77 No Danube

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    Kurt Kren short

    33/77 No Danube
  • 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
  • 1995
    49/95: thousandyearsofcinema

    49/95: thousandyearsofcinema

    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...

    49/95: thousandyearsofcinema
  • 1968
    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    18/68: Venecia kaputt

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    A short film by Kurt Kren.

    18/68: Venecia kaputt
  • 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
  • 1967
    13/67: Sinus Beta

    13/67: Sinus Beta

    13/67: Sinus Beta

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

    13/67: Sinus Beta
  • 1967
    15/67: TV

    15/67: TV

    15/67: TV

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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...

    15/67: TV
  • 1964
    7/64: Leda and the Swan

    7/64: Leda and the Swan

    7/64: Leda and the Swan

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

    7/64: Leda and the Swan
  • 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
  • 1993
    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3

    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3

    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...

    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3
  • 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
  • 1973
    28/73: Time Exposure(s)

    28/73: Time Exposure(s)

    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.

    28/73: Time Exposure(s)