Kurt Kren Movies

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

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...

Kren’s 10/65 Selfmutilation is developed from a Gunter Brus “action”. What the film emphasizes is the surrealistic drama of...

Almost as if entering the picture frame by chance, mute characters lean out of Viennese apartment windows, simply to have a look.

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...

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

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....

A guy having sex with a woman on a rooftop – just to get her coffee-machine.

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

In Schatzi Kurt Kren films a photo which shows an SS officer standing on a town square which is littered with dead bodies.

"In 1983, I got a job as a museum attendant and abandoned film-making entirely. And so the question arose: "no film?," and the conclusion I came to...

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...

A portrait of the Austrian avant-garde artist Otto Mühl/Muehl (1925-2013), whose work combined sex, violence, gastronomy and bodily effluence...

'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...

Kren frames the image to suggest a proscenium, with a view to the harbor that conveys a literal sense of “tele-vision”. The static...

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...

Kurt Kren recorded the last television debate in the Reagan/Mondale election campaign. In the viewfinder, the television filled the entire picture,...

Mostly dark, rejecting images which are repeated. A stone wall, the chamber of a revolver which is, at first not recognizable, a close-up of a...

A short film by Kurt Kren.

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...