Kurt Kren Movies

  • 1990
    46/90 Falter 2

    46/90 Falter 2

    46/90 Falter 2

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    Kurt Kren short

    46/90 Falter 2
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 1981
    40/81 Breakfast im Grauen

    40/81 Breakfast im Grauen

    40/81 Breakfast im Grauen

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    Kren in New Hampshire, New England. Together with friends he lived from the demolition of wooden houses and sale of the wood. Kren was the "nail...

    40/81 Breakfast im Grauen
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1976
    34/76: Tschibo

    34/76: Tschibo

    34/76: Tschibo

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    This film shows, with the use of single-frames, Kren's diary-like notes from 1968 to 1976, especially his entries about the work on the three...

    34/76: Tschibo
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1969
    22/69 Happy-End

    22/69 Happy-End

    22/69 Happy-End

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

    22/69 Happy-End
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1960
    3/60: Trees in Autumn

    3/60: Trees in Autumn

    3/60: Trees in Autumn

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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...

    3/60: Trees in Autumn
  • 1962
    5/62: People Looking out of the Window, Trash, etc.

    5/62: People Looking out of the Window, Trash, etc.

    5/62: People Looking out of the Window, Trash, etc.

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    Almost as if entering the picture frame by chance, mute characters lean out of Viennese apartment windows, simply to have a look.

    5/62: People Looking out of the Window, Trash, etc.