Kurt Kren Movies
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 1997
The 120 Days of Bottrop
The 120 Days of Bottrop5.61997HD
An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.
- 1980
Exit... But No Panic
Exit... But No Panic3.81980HD
A guy having sex with a woman on a rooftop – just to get her coffee-machine.
- 2010
Becoming Otto
Becoming Otto02010HD
A portrait of the Austrian avant-garde artist Otto Mühl/Muehl (1925-2013), whose work combined sex, violence, gastronomy and bodily effluence...
- 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...
- 1971
The Lascivious Wotan
The Lascivious Wotan2.61971HD
A subversive and experimental film by Otto Muehl.
- 1978
36/78: Rischart
36/78: Rischart4.51978HD
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...
- 1977
33/77 No Danube
33/77 No Danube01977HD
Kurt Kren short
- 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.
- 1995
49/95: thousandyearsofcinema
49/95: thousandyearsofcinema3.71995HD
The making of pictures becomes the central issue in itself in that, with an analytical single-picture procedure, picture-taking tourists on Vienna's...
- 1968
18/68: Venecia kaputt
18/68: Venecia kaputt01968HD
A short film by Kurt Kren.
- 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...
- 1967
13/67: Sinus Beta
13/67: Sinus Beta31967HD
Sinus Beta is almost a sort of teaching film about bodily behavior in different situations. The film also produces, through the heterogenic...
- 1967
15/67: TV
15/67: TV4.41967HD
Kren frames the image to suggest a proscenium, with a view to the harbor that conveys a literal sense of “tele-vision”. The static...
- 1964
7/64: Leda and the Swan
7/64: Leda and the Swan5.21964HD
Based on a Muehl Happening. The almost convulsive use of juxtaposition reappears here, but the captured gesture assumes a more erotic sensitivity,...
- 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...
- 1993
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 301993HD
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...
- 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...
- 1973
28/73: Time Exposure(s)
28/73: Time Exposure(s)21973HD
A man's head is seen in silent close-up using single-frame shooting and time exposure.