Kurt Kren Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1968
    17/68: Green-red

    17/68: Green-red

    17/68: Green-red

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    Kren filmed, in microscopic detail the reflection and refraction of the light in/on a glass bottle. However, the bottle itself (the whole body) is...

    17/68: Green-red
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1996
    50/96 Snapshots (For Bruce)

    50/96 Snapshots (For Bruce)

    50/96 Snapshots (For Bruce)

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    Kurt Kren records snapshots of visitors to Vienna who are photographed in front of the statue of Johann Strauss Jr.

    50/96 Snapshots (For Bruce)
  • 1965
    11/65: Helga Philipp Painting

    11/65: Helga Philipp Painting

    11/65: Helga Philipp Painting

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    11/65 Bild Helga Philipp is an optical abstraction of an optical abstraction: Kren has simply intercut filmed movements and sections from an Op...

    11/65: Helga Philipp Painting
  • 1991
    47/91 A Celebration

    47/91 A Celebration

    47/91 A Celebration

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    A commission by Austrian TV station ORF documenting the anniversary celebration for Kunststücke.

    47/91 A Celebration
  • 1970
    Portrait: Kurt Kren

    Portrait: Kurt Kren

    Portrait: Kurt Kren

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    "This film is an attempt in focusing. I visited Kurt Kren in Vienna. (Kurt Kren is considered to be the father of the European underground film.)...

    Portrait: Kurt Kren
  • 1997
    Homage to Kurt Kren

    Homage to Kurt Kren

    Homage to Kurt Kren

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    A homage to the Austrian experimental filmmaker Kurt Kren, his two films "1000 Years of Cinema" and "Snapspots" and his way of working; and that with...

    Homage to Kurt Kren
  • 1969
    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

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    Ludwig Schönherr | Federal Republic of Germany | 1969 | 18 fps | 3'25" | silent

    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren
  • 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
  • 1977
    33/77 No Danube

    33/77 No Danube

    33/77 No Danube

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    Kurt Kren short

    33/77 No Danube
  • 1971
    27/71 On Peacock Isle

    27/71 On Peacock Isle

    27/71 On Peacock Isle

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    Kurt Kren short

    27/71 On Peacock Isle