Kurt Kren

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

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

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 ...

Kurt Kren short

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 ...

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

Kurt Kren short

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

“Action” by Günter Brus. At first Kren did not want to show the film, because the image is underexposed. A copy of the negative ...

11/65 Bild Helga Philipp is an optical abstraction of an optical abstraction: Kren has simply intercut filmed movements and sections from an Op ...

Based on a Muehl Happening. The almost convulsive use of juxtaposition reappears here, but the captured gesture assumes a more erotic ...

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 ...

In 9/64 O Christmas Tree Kren offers a more visually descriptive development of a Muehl “action”. The images have been chosen to ...

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