Kurt Kren Movies
- 1969

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...
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- 1964

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...
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- 1970

24/70 Western
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Kurt Kren films an anti-war poster in extreme close-up moves to subvert the quick responses of viewers to its loaded imagery.
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- 1966

12/66: Cosinus Alpha
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Kren’s last film to include any direct reference to Otto Muehl is 12/66: Cosinus Alpha, a 10-minute film that completes a cycle of elaborate...
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- 1978

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...
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- 1996

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.
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- 1981

40/81: Breakfast in Grey
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Kren in New Hampshire, New England. Together with friends he lived from the demolition of wooden houses and sale of the wood. Kren was the "nail...
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- 1994

48/94 Fragment W.E.
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A fragment: Impressions of the atelier of painter Wolfgang Ernst (who also worked as a composer or the films of Kren and Schmid). Unfinished due to...
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- 1997

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...
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- 1971

26/71: Cartoon - Balzac and the Eye of God
26/71: Cartoon - Balzac and the Eye of God5.51971HD
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...
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- 1985

44/85: Foot'-age Shoot'-out
44/85: Foot'-age Shoot'-out7.51985HD
"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...
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- 1991

47/91 A Celebration
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A commission by Austrian TV station ORF documenting the anniversary celebration for Kunststücke.
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- 1995

49/95: thousandyearsofcinema
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The making of pictures becomes the central issue in itself in that, with an analytical single-picture procedure, picture-taking tourists on Vienna's...
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- 1976

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...
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- 1968

20/68: Honey
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Kurt Kren films a photo which shows an SS officer standing on a town square which is littered with dead bodies.
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- 1978

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...
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- 1967

13/67: Sinus Beta
13/67: Sinus Beta3.51967HD
Sinus Beta is almost a sort of teaching film about bodily behavior in different situations. The film also produces, through the heterogenic...
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- 1982

41/82 Getting Warm
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The third of the "bad home movies". Kren moved, along with his Thunderbird from New England in winter to the warmth of Texas. Part of the film was...
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- 1964

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...
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- 1976

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...
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