Kurt Kren Movies

  • 1997
    The 120 Days of Bottrop

    The 120 Days of Bottrop

    The 120 Days of Bottrop

    5.61997HD

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

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

    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...

    6/64: Mom and Dad (An Otto Mühl Happening)
  • 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
  • 1971
    26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes

    26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes

    26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes

    6.21971HD

    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...

    26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes
  • 1995
    49/95: thousandyearsofcinema

    49/95: thousandyearsofcinema

    49/95: thousandyearsofcinema

    3.71995HD

    The making of pictures becomes the central issue in itself in that, with an analytical single-picture procedure, picture-taking tourists on Vienna's...

    49/95: thousandyearsofcinema
  • 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
  • 1973
    30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam

    30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam

    30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam

    01973HD

    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....

    30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam
  • 1968
    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    01968HD

    A short film by Kurt Kren.

    18/68: Venecia kaputt
  • 1968
    Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten

    Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten

    Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten

    01968HD

    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
  • 1956
    Das Walk

    Das Walk

    Das Walk

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    A "stroll" at various locations: the St. Marx Cemetery, the Prater park, Carnuntum. We see people taking walks, construction workers, people flying...

    Das Walk
  • 1964
    8/64: Ana - Action Brus

    8/64: Ana - Action Brus

    8/64: Ana - Action Brus

    5.41964HD

    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...

    8/64: Ana - Action Brus
  • 1969
    23​/69: Underground Explosion

    23​/69: Underground Explosion

    23​/69: Underground Explosion

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

    23​/69: Underground Explosion
  • 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?
  • 1975
    31/75: Asylum

    31/75: Asylum

    31/75: Asylum

    4.81975HD

    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...

    31/75: Asylum