Movies: Kurt Kren

  • 1956
    Piano Salon 1. Floor

    Piano Salon 1. Floor (1956)

    Piano Salon 1. Floor

    01956HD

    A silent short film by Kurt Kren....

    Piano Salon 1. Floor
  • 1981
    39/81 Which Way to CA?

    39/81 Which Way to CA? (1981)

    39/81 Which Way to CA?

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

    39/81 Which Way to CA?
  • 1985
    44/85: Foot'-age Shoot'-out

    44/85: Foot'-age Shoot'-out (1985)

    44/85: Foot'-age Shoot'-out

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    "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 deliver a film, for a festival, given four day's notice, which he did ('foot'-age shoot'-out'). He no...

    44/85: Foot'-age Shoot'-out
  • 1990
    46/90 Falter 2

    46/90 Falter 2 (1990)

    46/90 Falter 2

    01990HD

    Kurt Kren short...

    46/90 Falter 2
  • 1971
    27/71 On Peacock Isle

    27/71 On Peacock Isle (1971)

    27/71 On Peacock Isle

    01971HD

    Kurt Kren short...

    27/71 On Peacock Isle
  • 1969
    22/69 Happy-End

    22/69 Happy-End (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 Kren in the form of insights and views from Otto Muehl's Libi Aktion....

    22/69 Happy-End
  • 1961
    4/61: Walls Pos.-Neg. and Way

    4/61: Walls Pos.-Neg. and Way (1961)

    4/61: Walls Pos.-Neg. and Way

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    The film uses slides - photographic planes - which show different surfaces and finishes of a wall, which have been erroded by time. Kren stacks the positives and negatives of these pictures quickly one after the other, so that a moving relief-type st...

    4/61: Walls Pos.-Neg. and Way
  • 1997
    Homage to Kurt Kren

    Homage to Kurt Kren (1997)

    Homage to Kurt Kren

    01997HD

    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 slight wink....

    Homage to Kurt Kren
  • 1956
    Rome

    Rome (1956)

    Rome

    01956HD

    Vacation pictures from Rome....

    Rome
  • 1988
    No Danube - Kurt Kren and His Films

    No Danube - Kurt Kren and His Films (1988)

    No Danube - Kurt Kren and His Films

    01988HD

    Documentary by Hans Scheugl on Kurt Kren....

    No Danube - Kurt Kren and His Films
  • 1977
    33/77 No Danube

    33/77 No Danube (1977)

    33/77 No Danube

    01977HD

    Kurt Kren short...

    33/77 No Danube
  • 1982
    41/82 Getting Warm

    41/82 Getting Warm (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 shot in Austin. (Hans Scheugl)...

    41/82 Getting Warm
  • 1976
    32/76: To W + B

    32/76: To W + B (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 of the camera. I tried to bring the negative into alignment with the real landscape which I could see ...

    32/76: To W + B
  • 1978
    37/78: Tree Again

    37/78: Tree Again (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 frame shots create a storm of pictures....

    37/78: Tree Again
  • 1995
    49/95: thousandyearsofcinema

    49/95: thousandyearsofcinema (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 St. Stephen's Place are captured and their faces animated to a dance....

    49/95: thousandyearsofcinema
  • 1964
    6/64: Mom and Dad (An Otto Mühl Happening)

    6/64: Mom and Dad (An Otto Mühl Happening) (1964)

    6/64: Mom and Dad (An Otto Mühl Happening)

    4.31964HD

    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 leitmotif, circular motion and networking can be observed throughout the film. Kren painstakingly weaves the fur...

    6/64: Mom and Dad (An Otto Mühl Happening)
  • 1996
    50/96 Snapshots (For Bruce)

    50/96 Snapshots (For Bruce) (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....

    50/96 Snapshots (For Bruce)
  • 1973
    29/73 Ready-Made

    29/73 Ready-Made (1973)

    29/73 Ready-Made

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    In a TV film about the film Casablanca, Kren is meant to read aloud three letters that Groucho Marx wrote to Warner Bros., because they wanted to take legal action against him over A Night in Casablanca. The recorded material could not be used on tel...

    29/73 Ready-Made
  • 1968
    17/68: Green-red

    17/68: Green-red (1968)

    17/68: Green-red

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    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 never seen. What is seen is much more the emanations of light from the glass and its clarity. (Michael ...

    17/68: Green-red
  • 1967
    13/67: Sinus Beta

    13/67: Sinus Beta (1967)

    13/67: Sinus Beta

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    Sinus Beta is almost a sort of teaching film about bodily behavior in different situations. The film also produces, through the heterogenic photographic materiality of the primary elements, a cross-section of the methods, used in capturing the body i...

    13/67: Sinus Beta