Kurt Kren Movies

  • 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
  • 1983
    42/83: No Film

    42/83: No Film

    42/83: No Film

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    "In 1983, I got a job as a museum attendant and abandoned film-making entirely. And so the question arose: "no film?," and the conclusion I came to...

    42/83: No Film
  • 1965
    10b/65: Silver – Action Brus

    10b/65: Silver – Action Brus

    10b/65: Silver – Action Brus

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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...

    10b/65: Silver – Action Brus
  • 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
  • 1966
    12/66: Cosinus Alpha

    12/66: Cosinus Alpha

    12/66: Cosinus Alpha

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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...

    12/66: Cosinus Alpha
  • 1956
    Das Walk

    Das Walk

    Das Walk

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    A "stroll" at various locations: the St. Marx Cemetery, the Prater park, Carnuntum. We see people taking walks, construction workers, people flying...

    Das Walk
  • 1968
    Satisfaction

    Satisfaction

    Satisfaction

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

    Satisfaction
  • 1969
    23​/69: Underground Explosion

    23​/69: Underground Explosion

    23​/69: Underground Explosion

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

    23​/69: Underground Explosion
  • 1978
    37/78: Tree Again

    37/78: Tree Again

    37/78: Tree Again

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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...

    37/78: Tree Again
  • 1979
    38/79: Sentimental Punk

    38/79: Sentimental Punk

    38/79: Sentimental Punk

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    '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...

    38/79: Sentimental Punk
  • 1956
    Rome

    Rome

    Rome

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    Vacation pictures from Rome.

    Rome
  • 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
  • 1975
    31/75: Asylum

    31/75: Asylum

    31/75: Asylum

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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...

    31/75: Asylum
  • 1990
    46/90 Falter 2

    46/90 Falter 2

    46/90 Falter 2

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    Kurt Kren short

    46/90 Falter 2
  • 1968
    20/68: Schatzi

    20/68: Schatzi

    20/68: Schatzi

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

    20/68: Schatzi
  • 1956
    Piano Salon 1. Floor

    Piano Salon 1. Floor

    Piano Salon 1. Floor

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    A silent short film by Kurt Kren.

    Piano Salon 1. Floor
  • 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
  • 1976
    32/76: To W + B

    32/76: To W + B

    32/76: To W + B

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    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...

    32/76: To W + B
  • 1964
    8/64: Ana - Action Brus

    8/64: Ana - Action Brus

    8/64: Ana - Action Brus

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    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...

    8/64: Ana - Action Brus
  • 1982
    41/82 Getting Warm

    41/82 Getting Warm

    41/82 Getting Warm

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    The third of the "bad home movies". Kren moved, along with his Thunderbird from New England in winter to the warmth of Texas. Part of the film was...

    41/82 Getting Warm