Kurt Kren Movies

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...

Documentary by Hans Scheugl on Kurt Kren.

A dada-ist mystery set in the Bay Area in the early 1980s, signposting long-gone, off-the-radar surrealist sites that used to be part of every-day...

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

"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...

Marc Adrian´s FILMBLOCK 0 paces out the foundations of a ritual of self-realization. With its matte surfaces (colorful leader) and easily...

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...

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

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....

Vacation pictures from Rome.

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

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...

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...

A silent short film by Kurt Kren.

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

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...

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...

The film uses slides - photographic planes - which show different surfaces and finishes of a wall, which have been erroded by time. Kren stacks the...