Kurt Kren Movies

  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    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

    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
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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

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

    Exit... But No Panic

    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
    2/60: 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test

    2/60: 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test

    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...

    2/60: 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test
  • 1984
    43/84: 1984

    43/84: 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,...

    43/84: 1984
  • 1968
    Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten

    Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten

    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...

    Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten
  • 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
  • 1965
    10/65: Self-Mutilation

    10/65: Self-Mutilation

    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...

    10/65: Self-Mutilation
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1965
    10c/65: Brus wishes his Christmas on you

    10c/65: Brus wishes his Christmas on you

    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...

    10c/65: Brus wishes his Christmas on you
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1993
    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3

    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3

    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3

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    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...

    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3
  • 1981
    39/81 Which Way to CA?

    39/81 Which Way to CA?

    39/81 Which Way to CA?

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    Kren on his way from Vermont to California. Kren says that his various cars are the thread which runs through the story. (Hans Scheugl)

    39/81 Which Way to CA?
  • 1956
    Rome

    Rome

    Rome

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    Vacation pictures from Rome.

    Rome
  • 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