Movies

Kren had composed a diary-like piece containing subtle irony with his 27/71 Auf der Pfaueninsel (On Peacock Isle). The lengthy titles which are one...

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...

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 on his way from Vermont to California. Kren says that his various cars are the thread which runs through the story. (Hans Scheugl)

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...

Documentary by Hans Scheugl on Kurt Kren.

A silent short film by Kurt Kren.

Kren filmed, in microscopic detail the reflection and refraction of the light in/on a glass bottle. However, the bottle itself (the whole body) is...

A man's head is seen in silent close-up using single-frame shooting and time exposure.

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Sinus Beta is almost a sort of teaching film about bodily behavior in different situations. The film also produces, through the heterogenic...

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

Kurt Kren short

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

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...

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