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
  • 1985
    44/85: Foot'-age Shoot'-out

    44/85: Foot'-age Shoot'-out

    44/85: Foot'-age Shoot'-out

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    "It became easier to understand Kren's method of approaching film when he illustrated his matter-of-factness with a story: he was asked to shoot and...

    44/85: Foot'-age Shoot'-out
  • 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
    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
  • 1957
    Black Movie I

    Black Movie I

    Black Movie I

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    Marc Adrian´s FILMBLOCK 0 paces out the foundations of a ritual of self-realization. With its matte surfaces (colorful leader) and easily...

    Black Movie I
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1977
    33/77 No Danube

    33/77 No Danube

    33/77 No Danube

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    Kurt Kren short

    33/77 No Danube
  • 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
    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
  • 1961
    4/61: Walls Pos.-Neg. and Way

    4/61: Walls Pos.-Neg. and Way

    4/61: Walls Pos.-Neg. and Way

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    The film uses slides - photographic planes - which show different surfaces and finishes of a wall, which have been erroded by time. Kren stacks the...

    4/61: Walls Pos.-Neg. and Way
  • 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
  • 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?
  • 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
  • 1964
    7/64: Leda and the Swan

    7/64: Leda and the Swan

    7/64: Leda and the Swan

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    Based on a Muehl Happening. The almost convulsive use of juxtaposition reappears here, but the captured gesture assumes a more erotic sensitivity,...

    7/64: Leda and the Swan
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 1973
    28/73: Time Exposure(s)

    28/73: Time Exposure(s)

    28/73: Time Exposure(s)

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    A man's head is seen in silent close-up using single-frame shooting and time exposure.

    28/73: Time Exposure(s)
  • 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