Kurt Kren Movies
- 1997
The 120 Days of Bottrop
The 120 Days of Bottrop5.61997HD
An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 1984
43/84: 1984
43/84: 1984101984HD
Kurt Kren recorded the last television debate in the Reagan/Mondale election campaign. In the viewfinder, the television filled the entire picture,...
- 1993
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 301993HD
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...
- 1980
Exit... But No Panic
Exit... But No Panic3.81980HD
A guy having sex with a woman on a rooftop – just to get her coffee-machine.
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
- 1973
29/73 Ready-Made
29/73 Ready-Made01973HD
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...
- 1964
6/64: Mom and Dad (An Otto Mühl Happening)
6/64: Mom and Dad (An Otto Mühl Happening)4.31964HD
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...
- 1964
7/64: Leda and the Swan
7/64: Leda and the Swan5.21964HD
Based on a Muehl Happening. The almost convulsive use of juxtaposition reappears here, but the captured gesture assumes a more erotic sensitivity,...
- 1971
26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes
26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes6.21971HD
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...
- 1995
49/95: thousandyearsofcinema
49/95: thousandyearsofcinema3.71995HD
The making of pictures becomes the central issue in itself in that, with an analytical single-picture procedure, picture-taking tourists on Vienna's...
- 1965
11/65: Helga Philipp Painting
11/65: Helga Philipp Painting31965HD
11/65 Bild Helga Philipp is an optical abstraction of an optical abstraction: Kren has simply intercut filmed movements and sections from an Op...
- 1973
30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam
30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam01973HD
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....
- 1968
18/68: Venecia kaputt
18/68: Venecia kaputt01968HD
A short film by Kurt Kren.
- 1968
Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten
Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten01968HD
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...
- 1956
Das Walk
Das Walk01956HD
A "stroll" at various locations: the St. Marx Cemetery, the Prater park, Carnuntum. We see people taking walks, construction workers, people flying...
- 1964
8/64: Ana - Action Brus
8/64: Ana - Action Brus5.41964HD
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...
- 1969
23/69: Underground Explosion
23/69: Underground Explosion101969HD
A report about an Underground Festival on tour through Germany and Switzerland.
- 1981
39/81 Which Way to CA?
39/81 Which Way to CA?101981HD
Kren on his way from Vermont to California. Kren says that his various cars are the thread which runs through the story. (Hans Scheugl)
- 1975
31/75: Asylum
31/75: Asylum4.81975HD
A meadow, a lake, the silhouette of a hill, trees. 21 days of the same view in Saarland. 21 days with five different cut-outs in a mask before the...