Kurt Kren Filmes

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

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

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

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...

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

Kren's second film and the first he cut according to a strictly serial, sequence technique: in various frame sizes, the 48 portraits from the Szondi...

"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...

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...

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 subversive and experimental film by Otto Muehl.

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

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

A kind of home movie made in Brus' apartment. Brus' Christmas wishes can be seen on a poster which he painted and which he holds for a short time in...

An experimental, bizarre and a very different shooting of an association between the sexes.

A commission by Austrian TV station ORF documenting the anniversary celebration for Kunststücke.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...