Movies: Kurt Kren

  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)

    Home Movies 1971-81

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    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years....

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1997
    The 120 Days of Bottrop

    The 120 Days of Bottrop (1997)

    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
  • 1960
    2/60: 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test

    2/60: 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test (1960)

    2/60: 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test

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    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 Szondi Test for "experimental diagnosis of human impulses" are shown in pre-specified lengths (between one a...

    2/60: 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation (1997)

    Birth of a Nation

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

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1980
    Exit... But No Panic

    Exit... But No Panic (1980)

    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
  • 1960
    3/60: Trees in Autumn

    3/60: Trees in Autumn (1960)

    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 is constrained within a systematic or structural procedure, incidentally the precursors of the most struct...

    3/60: Trees in Autumn
  • 1968
    Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten

    Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten (1968)

    Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten

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    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 fuss and sex occurs. Suddenly the woman gets her baby to change diapers. Odd things around the child. ...

    Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten
  • 1984
    43/84: 1984

    43/84: 1984 (1984)

    43/84: 1984

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    Kurt Kren recorded the last television debate in the Reagan/Mondale election campaign. In the viewfinder, the television filled the entire picture, but the viewfinder did not match the lens entirely so that the television screen in the picture was ve...

    43/84: 1984
  • 1967
    13/67: Sinus Beta

    13/67: Sinus Beta (1967)

    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 photographic materiality of the primary elements, a cross-section of the methods, used in capturing the body i...

    13/67: Sinus Beta
  • 1978
    37/78: Tree Again

    37/78: Tree Again (1978)

    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 frame shots create a storm of pictures....

    37/78: Tree Again
  • 1968
    Satisfaction

    Satisfaction (1968)

    Satisfaction

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

    Satisfaction
  • 1964
    6/64: Mom and Dad (An Otto Mühl Happening)

    6/64: Mom and Dad (An Otto Mühl Happening) (1964)

    6/64: Mom and Dad (An Otto Mühl Happening)

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    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, circular motion and networking can be observed throughout the film. Kren painstakingly weaves the fur...

    6/64: Mom and Dad (An Otto Mühl Happening)
  • 1965
    10c/65: Brus wishes his Christmas on you

    10c/65: Brus wishes his Christmas on you (1965)

    10c/65: Brus wishes his Christmas on you

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    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 in front of the camera....

    10c/65: Brus wishes his Christmas on you
  • 2010
    Becoming Otto

    Becoming Otto (2010)

    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 with unbridled abandon....

    Becoming Otto
  • 1966
    12/66: Cosinus Alpha

    12/66: Cosinus Alpha (1966)

    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 sensual montages and materials....

    12/66: Cosinus Alpha
  • 1969
    23​/69: Underground Explosion

    23​/69: Underground Explosion (1969)

    23​/69: Underground Explosion

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

    23​/69: Underground Explosion
  • 1965
    10/65: Self-Mutilation

    10/65: Self-Mutilation (1965)

    10/65: Self-Mutilation

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    Kren’s 10/65 Selfmutilation is developed from a Gunter Brus “action”. What the film emphasizes is the surrealistic drama of symbolic self-destruction that Kren drew out of Brus’ action, pacing out each gesture so that one gets a tense, iconoclastic r...

    10/65: Self-Mutilation
  • 1971
    26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes

    26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes (1971)

    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 viewer missed something the first time: in crude hand-drawn animation Zeichenfilm ... evokes the scatol...

    26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes
  • 1964
    8/64: Ana - Action Brus

    8/64: Ana - Action Brus (1964)

    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 items such as broken bicycle parts, a nude model, pieces of furniture, and these elements were then obsc...

    8/64: Ana - Action Brus
  • 1973
    30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam

    30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam (1973)

    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. Sometimes sunlight comes through the open door into the theater changing the colors in the film remarkab...

    30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam