https://kurtkren.info/score1 daily 0.75 2020-01-14 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5e1d7bc7210a4e0388081e52/1533711420979/ Scores & Draw https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aa99e0e2e72497ad02c52/1578990533545/Etudes_1000x1413.jpg Scores & Draw - 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test, 1960 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6a943703ce64348eb8f9c4/1533711420979/Etudes_1000x1412.jpg Scores & Draw https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aa9e888251b72933a59b9/1578990533534/Szondi_2.jpg Scores & Draw - 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test, 1960 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aa9a76d2a737c80f37d20/1578990533525/Ba%CC%88ume.jpg Scores & Draw - Trees in Autumn, 1960 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aa9ae6d2a737c80f37d90/1578990533526/Fenstergucker.jpg Scores & Draw - People Looking out of the Window, Trash, etc., 1962 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aa9c188251b72933a5677/1578990533525/Mauern.jpg Scores & Draw - Walls, pos.-neg. and Paths, 1962 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6ab5228a922df70e445a9b/1578990533543/MAMA%2Bund%2BPAPA_1.jpg Scores & Draw - Mama and Papa, 1964 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6ab528f950b70e7015ef27/1578990533524/MAMA%2BUND%2BPAPA_3.jpg Scores & Draw - Mama and Papa, 1964 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6ab57670a6ad2f21cfba35/1578990533537/Cosinus_alpha.jpg Scores & Draw - Cosinus Alpha (Material Action Otto Mühl), 1966 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aba1c70a6ad2f21d036f3/1578990535423/Selbstverstu%CC%88mmelung.jpg Scores & Draw - Self-Mutilation, 1967 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aba722b6a28bb2192b09e/1578990533783/20.September.jpg Scores & Draw - September 20th, 1967 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6ab53f758d46100263d811/1578990533750/Balzak_1.jpg Scores & Draw - Cartoon - Balzac or the Eye of God, 1971 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6abbd503ce64348ebcbf91/1578990533747/Zeitaufnahmen_A.jpg Scores & Draw - Time Exposure(s), 1973 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6abbd5562fa77529caf351/1578990533795/Zeitaufnahmen.jpg Scores & Draw - Time Exposure(s), 1973 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6abd0f03ce64348ebcdf9d/1578990533777/Asyl_1.jpg Scores & Draw - Asylum, 1975 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6abd0f562fa77529cb1398/1578990534229/Asyl_2.jpg Scores & Draw - Asylum, 1975 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6abd1b0e2e72497ad22701/1578990533964/Keine_Donau.jpg Scores & Draw - No Danube, 1976 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6ac0338a922df70e458c52/1578990533969/Keine%2BDonau_A.jpg Scores & Draw - No Danube, 1976 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6ac040758d461002650985/1578990534001/Tree_Again_A.jpg Scores & Draw - Tree Again, 1978 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6ac051352f535083518375/1578990535366/Sentimental%2BPunk.jpg Scores & Draw - Sentimental Punk, 1978 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6ac063562fa77529cb775a/1578990533752/Rischart_1.jpg Scores & Draw - Rischart, 1978 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5e1d7ba0210a4e0388081c6b/1578990524369/DSC_7012.jpg Scores & Draw https://kurtkren.info/films-1967-76 daily 0.75 2020-01-16 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5afca1790e2e72d06a5a3422/1532159287756/20.-September.gif Films 1967-76 - September 20th, 1967 Kren says: The London Film-Makers´ Cooperative calls this film the "Eating, Drinking, Pissing and Shitting film".Kren says: This film had to be made. London Filmmakers Coop says: It had to be Kren who made it." (Anonymous) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5afb34d3f950b7297192f93f/1532159316039/KREN_Schatzi.gif Films 1967-76 - Honey, 1968 Schatzi begins with a blurred light and dark structure – hazy spots and surfaces that appear to blur each other. Slowly, and the film continues one begins to detect a figure, a man in a long, dark coat ... (Hans Hurch) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5afb1f508a922dae48863843/1526407038016/KREN_Sinus-Beta.gif Films 1967-76 - Sinus Beta, 1967 Sinus Beta is almost a pedagogical film about the behavior of the body in various situations, but equally a section through the methods of immobilizing and fixing the body photographically. (Michael Palm) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b52f434aa4a995f7a65c088/1532163159083/Underground-Explosion.gif Films 1967-76 - Underground Explosion, 1969 A report about an Underground Festival on tour through Germany and Switzerland. Kren shot the film from the hip, which, together with the music, generates a very authentic impression of events. (Hans Scheugl) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b5b9eeaf950b7feeb39bfa4/1532731145012/Venecia_kaputt.gif Films 1967-76 - Venecia kaputt, 1968 In 1968 Kren made Venecia Kaputt, which lasts only 22 seconds, and utilizes scratching on film to erase an image of Venice. (Malcolm Le Grice) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b52ec0570a6ad6dfdce2b1a/1532161062978/Balcak.gif Films 1967-76 - Zeichenfilm - Balcak und das Auge Gottes, 1971 In crude, hand-drawn animation, Balzac und das Auge Gottes evokes the scatological, sadomasochistic actions and performances of Otto Muehl and Günter Brus. (Regina Cornwell) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5afb37911ae6cff443cb6d22/1532159406105/KREN_Zeitrahmen.gif Films 1967-76 - Time Exposure(s), 1973 Kren releases Hans-Peter Kochenrath‘s face from time by using single frames so that a wild, vibrating, untamed mass results. A new form of moving portrait emerges. (Michael Palm) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b5ba3d5562fa73ce91af787/1532732408482/Rot_Gru%CC%88n.gif Films 1967-76 - Green-Red, 1968 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 Palm) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5afb36d5aa4a995d519a197e/1532159395049/KREN_Auf+der+Pfaueninsel.gif Films 1967-76 - On Peacock Isle, 1971 Walk with Anni Brus, Diana Brus, Günther Brus, Alois Egg and Wolfgang Ernst in Berlin. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5afb359b6d2a73ea3daedd73/1532159339621/KREN_Happy-End.gif Films 1967-76 - Happy End, 1969 Kren filmed pieces of feature films in the cinema without looking through the view finder. The missing sexual climax from the cinema was added by Kren in the form of insights and views from Otto Muehl’s Libi Aktion. (Hans Scheugl) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5afb38ed6d2a73ea3dafb4ec/1526413603787/KREN_An-W-%26-B.gif Films 1967-76 - To W + B, 1976 I took a photo of the view out of the window and I had a very large negative made from it, which I fastened to the lens hood attachment in front of the camera. I tried to bring the negative into alignment with the real landscape which I could see through the camera. Then I filmed for months, changing the focus from near to far and then back again, i.e. from the negative to the landscape beyond and back again. (Kurt Kren) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b52e95f03ce640bec5e7e3e/1532160378304/Ready-Made.gif Films 1967-76 - Ready Made, 1973 Kren was supposed to read three letters from Groucho Marx to the Warner Brothers in a television film about the film Casablanca. Warner wanted to prevent the Marx brothers from using the title A Night in Casablanca by court order. The material which was shot was unusable for television and was to have been destroyed. (Hans Scheugl) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5afb368503ce6420c18e9b70/1526412977774/KREN_Western.gif Films 1967-76 - Western, 1970 The alien impression of photography in Western is caused by the use of extreme close-up. Kren’s camera moves across the details of a Vietnam Poster in single frames as if, with trembling closeness and persistent repetition, he wanted to win a new truthfulness from the picture. (Hans Hurch) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5afb387c1ae6cff443cbb0e5/1526413500347/KREN_Asyl.gif Films 1967-76 - Asylum, 1975 A meadow, a lake, the silhouette of a hill, trees. 21 days of the same view in Saarland. 21 days with five different cut-outs in a mask before the camera, which finally reveals a complete panorama. A landscape changes with the advancing seasons and becomes slowly delirious in its technical alienation. (Claus Philipp) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5afb3820562fa7752dcade22/1526413398575/KREN_Coop-Cinema-Amsterdam.gif Films 1967-76 - Coop Cinema Amsterdam, 1973 Over a period of three weeks, Kren shot single frame and slow motion material in the projection booth of the Coop Cinema both during and after the shows. (Hans Scheugl) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b5b9e5c352f53124f3a349c/1532730999196/TV.gif Films 1967-76 - TV, 1967 Kren frames the image to suggest a proscenium, with a view to the harbor that conveys a literal sense of “tele- vision”. The static framing of the image and the clearly stratified mise-en-scène can hardly provoke interpretation. The sight of the girls does so all the more. (Thomas Trummer) https://kurtkren.info/films-1977-96 daily 0.75 2020-01-16 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b53169a562fa73754cf0141/1533017858545/KREN_Rischart.gif Films 1977-96 - Rischart, 1978 Peter Kochenrath made a documentary film about me and wanted me to make a self-portrait of myself. Instead of aiming the lens away from myself, I pointed it directly at me. I kept rewinding the film to create multiple exposures that perpetually lap dissolve into one another. (Kurt Kren) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b531d4588251b4755f09ee1/1533018006501/KREN_1984.gif Films 1977-96 - 1984, 1984 Kren’s contribution to the Orwell year. He shot the last television debate between Reagan and Mondale. (Anonymus) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5afcaac588251be1a9d6bef5/1533017833707/KREN_Keine-Donau.gif Films 1977-96 - No Danube, 1977 In its own way Keine Donau leaves the regime of congruent events in order to triumph over time. Without using montage in the normal sense of the word it achieves the co-presence of multiple timelines in one picture. (Michael Palm) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5afcac026d2a73990ed6c53d/1533017876584/KREN_Tree-Again.gif Films 1977-96 - Tree Again, 1978 At the centre 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. (Hans Scheugl) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b5319d9f950b714418a4a83/1533017957285/KREN_Getting-Warm.gif Films 1977-96 - Getting warm, 1982 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) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b531bce8a922d868ec2ba87/1533017898563/KREN_Which-Way-to-CA.gif Films 1977-96 - Which way to CA?, 1981 Kren on his way from Vermont to California. Kren says that his various cars are the thread which runs through the story. (Hans Scheugl) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b5c2693352f53124f47b7ce/1533017845789/Tschibo_1.gif Films 1977-96 - Tschibo, 1977 In single shots, the film shows Kren's diary like notes from 1968 to 1976, in particular, on the recordings on the previous three films. (Hans Scheugl) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b5330226d2a73038b4a1506/1533018056989/Falter-2.gif Films 1977-96 - Falter 2, 1990 Someone once said, 'The greatness of filmmaking lies in being modest enough to realize that one is confined to taking photographs.' Kurt Kren's films are neither paintings, nor poems nor music; they are not even typically film, as the term is used in the degenerate rhetoric of most modern film artists. (Hans Hurch) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b5c278b562fa73ce92852c5/1533017978880/No+Film.gif Films 1977-96 - No Film, 1983 It was a time when I was desperately unhappy that I wasn’t really doing anything, no more films. Wilhelm and Birgit Hein once took a photograph from a newspaper, saying that, although the image doesn’t move on the screen, it’s still film. I shot a few words – “No Film” – which don’t move either but are a film just the same. And so: no film. Question mark. (Kurt Kren) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b545db0562fa73754efb052/1533018146851/Kren_Snapshots.gif Films 1977-96 - Snapspots (for Bruce), 1996 Having shown us the dance of the photographing tourists in tausendjahrekino (1995), Kren shows us in Snapshots uncountable visitors to Vienna, who are photographed by their neighbours as well as by the local foreign Kren in front of the statue of Johann Strauss jr., either individually, in families or in busloads. (Thomas Korschil) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b5c27380e2e7245f402a440/1533017886721/Sentimental-Punk.gif Films 1977-96 - Sentimental Punk, 1979 Thirtysix noticeably blurred and over exposed slides which Kren took at a punk concert form the basis for an attempt to revive lost movement. Kren used a strict ordering principle so that there is a hint of movement between each individual picture. (Michael Palm) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b545c86562fa73754ef9af4/1533018118461/Kren_Tausendjahre-Kino.gif Films 1977-96 - Thousendyearsofcinema, 1995 One eye tightly shut and the other pressed against the viewfinder. This is the standard position which Kren captures in single frames. Uncountable photographers, with their acutely-angled cameras directed at St.Stephan’s Cathedral whizz by. (Elisabeth Büttner) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b545c42352f530b8e373248/1533018090068/Kren_Ein-Fest.gif Films 1977-96 - A Celebration, 1996 This film was commissioned by the Austrian television ORF. Kren was asked to document the anniversary celebration for the program “Kunststücke,” a cultural magazine. He shot single frames of the events and used the actual recorded sounds as the soundtrack. (Hans Scheugl) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b532fc5f950b714418c0cbd/1533018036496/Foot%27-age-shoot%27-out.gif Films 1977-96 - Foot'-age shoot'-out, 1985 Finally there follow last despairing messages, 42/83 No Film, 43/84 1984 and 44/85 Foot’-age shoot’-out. The latter is accompanied by Morricone’s The Man with the Harmonica­ – in German the song is entitled “Lied vom Tod”, which translates as “Song of Death”. (Peter Tscherkassky) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b531a8bf950b714418a580f/1533017943555/KREN_Breakfast-im-Grauen.gif Films 1977-96 - Breakfast im Grauen, 1981 Kren in New Hampshire, New England. Together with friends he lived from the demolition of wooden houses and sale of the wood. Kren was the “nail puller”. (Hans Scheugl) https://kurtkren.info/filmobio daily 0.75 2020-01-16 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b76ea941ae6cf7124f3ec9f/1534519969722/Kren_logo_3_72dpi.jpg Filmo & Bio https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b616dc76d2a730eade5e536/1534517636412/kurt+kren2+aussch2.jpg Filmo & Bio https://kurtkren.info/contacts daily 1.0 2020-01-16 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b521ace1ae6cfb843926f23/1532615806478/Kren_Versuch-mit...gif Films 1957-66 - Attempt with synthetic Sound, 1957 In a rapid montage three images are juxtaposed and furnished with scratching noises directly drawn onto the film. Editing took place “in camera” during the shoot. Everything is laid out ahead of time according to a written score – nothing is left to coincidence. (Sigrid Sprung) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5af1b9fbf950b745d9b8f894/1533015678965/KREN_Ba%CC%88ume-im-Herbst.gif Films 1957-66 - Trees in Autumn,1960 Kren looks at and simultaneously away from nature. He approaches the trees as an optical experiment, observing them in regard to their abstract value. Their effect upon the senses constitutes what is relevant, in order to be fit into a strict rhythmic and mathematical calculation, without having to consider narrative development or process. (Thomas Trummer) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b5adb1baa4a995ec92035de/1533015680655/48-Ko%CC%88pfe.gif Films 1957-66 - 48 Heads from the Szondi Test, 1960 Kren’s second film and the first which he cut in accordance with a strictly serial sequence technique: in various frame sizes, the 48 portraits from the Szondi Test for “experimental diagnosis of human impulse” are shown in pre-specified length. (Peter Tscherkassky) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b5ff43e03ce64a12df85c65/1533016301417/Kren_Rom.gif Films 1957-66 - Rome (Fragment), 1956 Some vacation pictures from Rome. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b5ff4d31ae6cf370fd6ebc2/1533016338004/Kren_Das-Walk.gif Films 1957-66 - Das Walk, 1956 A “stroll” at various locations: the St. Marx Cemetery, the Prater park, Carnuntum. We see people taking walks, construction workers, people flying model planes and other little observations. Kren also used a short segment of found footage in color which shows a woman in a bikini. (Hans Scheugl) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5afb0d2d03ce6436a6186abe/1532179175252/KREN_Mama-%26-Papa.gif Films 1957-66 - Mama and Papa, 1964 Shot/countershot sequences alternate, lumping back and forth between single (!) frames, they turn the Actionist turmoil into ornaments, rigid geometrical patterns, the equivalent in time to what Mondrian used to distill on canvas in space. (Peter Tscherkassky) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5af2b4498a922dd314224e44/1532179102683/KREN_Mauern.gif Films 1957-66 - Walls-Positive-Negative and Path, 1961 In a flickering symbol shattering, total collage technique, Kren energizes the cinema frame with a unique thing-ness, that energizes the viewer. (Al Hansen) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b5ae68daa4a995ec9211aaf/1532683958194/Leda-and-the-Swan.gif Films 1957-66 - Leda and the Swan, 1964 Based on a Muehl Happening. The almost convulsive use of juxtaposition reappears here, but the captured gesture assumes a more erotic sensitivity, though the “action” itself was primarily a gradual destruction of the erotic. (Stephen Dwoskin) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b52c87970a6ad6dfdcc1401/1532179229155/Ana+-+Action+Brus Films 1957-66 - Ana - Action Brus, 1964 While flash editing had made Mühl’s actions rage, the repetitive qualities had ensured that the “moving ornament” was still legible. The single-frame process Kren uses to record Brus’s action as if writing with his camera makes the image almost less than discernible. (Peter Tscherkassky) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5afb114d03ce6436a6195bd8/1532179302243/KREN_Brus+wu%CC%88nscht-scho%CC%88ne+Weihnacht.gif Films 1957-66 - Brus wishes his Christmas on you, 1965 A kind of home movie made in Brus’ apartment. This film differs from Kren’s other “home movies” in that it was shot in single frames. Brus’ Christmas wishes can be seen on a poster which he painted and which he holds for a short time in front of the camera. (Hans Scheugl) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5afb109b352f530eceaac761/1532179280565/KREN_Silber.gif Films 1957-66 - Silver - Action Brus, 1965 In the films Kren made during the Günter Brus “Actions”, plasticity is expunged. In contrast to the Muehl films, the body stretches out of the material and because of this becomes more difficult to differentiate from its environment, from the other objects. (Michael Palm) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5afb073770a6ad7066da4888/1532179153977/KREN_Fenstergucker.gif Films 1957-66 - People Looking out of the Window, Trash, etc., 1962 Almost as if entering the picture frame by chance, mute characters lean out of Viennese apartment windows, simply to have a look. Under certain historical conditions social apathy can abruptly turn into euphoric collaboration, and, yes, massive aggression. (Elisabeth Büttner) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5afb0eec88251b540bd3d943/1532179265626/KREN_Selbstverstu%CC%88mmelung.gif Films 1957-66 - Self-Mutilation, 1965 What the film emphasizes is the surrealistic drama of symbolic self-destruction that Kren drew out of Brus’ action, pacing out each gesture so that one gets a tense, iconoclastic revelation of a man covered in white plaster lying surrounded by razor blades and a range of instruments looking as if they have been taken from an operating theatre. (Stephen Dwoskin) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b5ae560aa4a995ec9210244/1532683790351/Cosinus-Alpha.gif Films 1957-66 - Cosinus Alpha, 1966 Mühl talked me into filming an action. And when I was thinking about how I was going to edit it, it suddenly turned out that some Turks wanted to buy the film. I didn’t cut very much out as I normally did, and for that reason it’s probably a few seconds too long. You have to remember that we were always extremely short of money and didn’t know how we were going to continue working. Then the Turks didn’t buy the film at all, they said it was too dirty for them. (Kurt Kren) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b5ae53070a6ad84f13cee39/1532683595552/Bild-Helga-Philipp.gif Films 1957-66 - Helga Philipp Painting, 1965 The “kinetic” subject of Helga Philipp enables Kren to make a commentary about contemporary painting and its current concerns (i.e. illusion, psychedelic effect, ornament and fashion), as well to create a self-referential work on the reception of film. (Thomas Trummer) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b59acf9aa4a99fbdb308d9d/1532603670496/Piano_Parlor.gif Films 1957-66 - Piano Salon 1. Floor, 1956 In both Piano Salon and Das Walk the topic of travel and change of place is evoked, permitting recognition in retrospect of a development which shows its basic stylistic characteristics in Kren’s early films: the seemingly casual collection of images which happen before the camera during a journey. (Hans Scheugl) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5b5ae6438a922d49a14c4919/1532683889017/O-Tannenbaum.gif Films 1957-66 - O Christmas Tree, 1964 In O Christmas Tree Kren offers a more visually descriptive development of a Muehl action. The images have been chosen to follow a more dramatic sequence, probably because the action itself contained a wide range of images and materials. (Stephen Dwoskin) https://kurtkren.info/books daily 0.75 2021-02-23 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5e1d919c6bc1842ea0d88d5a/5e1db46058335752f83c27db/1580111820420/Which+Way+Kopie.jpg Books https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5e1d919c6bc1842ea0d88d5a/5e1daad458335752f83b6f39/1580111820417/Kren_structural%2B_korr.jpg Books Hamlyn, Nicky, Pane,Simon and Rees, A. L. eds. Kurt Kren: Structural Films. Bristol: Intellect Publishers, 2016 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5e1d919c6bc1842ea0d88d5a/5e1da5a958335752f83b0bad/1580111820415/Kren_Hummel+Kopie.jpg Books Hummel, Julius, ed. Kurt Kren. Film Foto Wiener Aktionismus / Film Photography Viennese Actionism. [German/English] Vienna: Galerie Julius Hummel, 1998. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5e1d919c6bc1842ea0d88d5a/5e1d931d4ca29a5aa449aecd/1580111820412/INDEX002_Kren.jpg Books https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5e1d919c6bc1842ea0d88d5a/5e1d930e595ea63874dee21f/1614083518236/INDEX001_Kren.jpg Books https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5e1d919c6bc1842ea0d88d5a/5e1d92f65ca3535f45846eae/1580111820407/Kren_Secession.jpg Books Rhomberg, Kathrin, ed. Kurt Kren. tausendjahrekino. [German/ English] Vienna: Vienna Secession, 1996. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5e1d919c6bc1842ea0d88d5a/5e1d92e1db2c3e0f9899ad3a/1580111820404/Tscherkassky_Netz.jpg Books Tscherkassky, Peter, ed. Film Unframed. A History of Austrian Avantgarde-Cinema. Vienna: FilmmuseumSynemaPublikation 2012. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5e1d919c6bc1842ea0d88d5a/5e1d929eb387c1091dabcb4d/1580111820402/Ex_underground_Netz.jpg Books Scheugl, Hans, ed. Ex Underground Kurt Kren, seine Filme. [German] Vienna: PVS Verleger, 1996. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5e1d919c6bc1842ea0d88d5a/5e1d9242db2c3e0f98999f5e/1580111820398/Kurt_Kren_Unbehagen.jpg Books Trummer, Thomas, ed. Kurt Kren. Das Unbehagen am Film. [German] Vienna: Atelier Augarten. Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst der Österreichischen Galerie Belvedere, 2006. https://kurtkren.info/texts daily 0.75 2020-01-16 https://kurtkren.info/contact daily 0.75 2021-02-23 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5e1f5a5b899f6c4015246f5f/1579113059930/Federal.png Contacts https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5e201f02503de051586fd1cf/1579163413272/Jacke_black1_oben.jpg Contacts https://kurtkren.info/scores daily 0.75 2020-01-28 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5e1d7ba0210a4e0388081c6b/1578990524369/DSC_7012.jpg Scores & Drawings https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6ac063562fa77529cb775a/1578990533752/Rischart_1.jpg Scores & Drawings - Rischart, 1978 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6ac051352f535083518375/1578990535366/Sentimental%2BPunk.jpg Scores & Drawings - Sentimental Punk, 1978 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6ac040758d461002650985/1578990534001/Tree_Again_A.jpg Scores & Drawings - Tree Again, 1978 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6ac0338a922df70e458c52/1578990533969/Keine%2BDonau_A.jpg Scores & Drawings - No Danube, 1976 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6abd1b0e2e72497ad22701/1578990533964/Keine_Donau.jpg Scores & Drawings - No Danube, 1976 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6abd0f562fa77529cb1398/1578990534229/Asyl_2.jpg Scores & Drawings - Asylum, 1975 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6abd0f03ce64348ebcdf9d/1578990533777/Asyl_1.jpg Scores & Drawings - Asylum, 1975 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6abbd503ce64348ebcbf91/1578990533747/Zeitaufnahmen_A.jpg Scores & Drawings - Time Exposure(s), 1973 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6abbd5562fa77529caf351/1578990533795/Zeitaufnahmen.jpg Scores & Drawings - Time Exposure(s), 1973 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aba722b6a28bb2192b09e/1578990533783/20.September.jpg Scores & Drawings - September 20th, 1967 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aba1c70a6ad2f21d036f3/1578990535423/Selbstverstu%CC%88mmelung.jpg Scores & Drawings - Self-Mutilation, 1967 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6ab57670a6ad2f21cfba35/1578990533537/Cosinus_alpha.jpg Scores & Drawings - Cosinus Alpha (Material Action Otto Mühl), 1966 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6ab53f758d46100263d811/1578990533750/Balzak_1.jpg Scores & Drawings - Cartoon - Balzac or the Eye of God, 1971 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6ab528f950b70e7015ef27/1578990533524/MAMA%2BUND%2BPAPA_3.jpg Scores & Drawings - Mama and Papa, 1964 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6ab5228a922df70e445a9b/1578990533543/MAMA%2Bund%2BPAPA_1.jpg Scores & Drawings - Mama and Papa, 1964 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aa9e888251b72933a59b9/1578990533534/Szondi_2.jpg Scores & Drawings - 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test, 1960 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aa9c188251b72933a5677/1578990533525/Mauern.jpg Scores & Drawings - Walls, pos.-neg. and Paths, 1962 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aa9ae6d2a737c80f37d90/1578990533526/Fenstergucker.jpg Scores & Drawings - People Looking out of the Window, Trash, etc., 1962 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aa9a76d2a737c80f37d20/1578990533525/Ba%CC%88ume.jpg Scores & Drawings - Trees in Autumn, 1960 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aa99e0e2e72497ad02c52/1578990533545/Etudes_1000x1413.jpg Scores & Drawings - 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Mama and Papa, 1964 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6ab5228a922df70e445a9b/1578990533543/MAMA%2Bund%2BPAPA_1.jpg Scores & Drawings (Copy) - Mama and Papa, 1964 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aa9e888251b72933a59b9/1578990533534/Szondi_2.jpg Scores & Drawings (Copy) - 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test, 1960 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aa9c188251b72933a5677/1578990533525/Mauern.jpg Scores & Drawings (Copy) - Walls, pos.-neg. and Paths, 1962 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aa9ae6d2a737c80f37d90/1578990533526/Fenstergucker.jpg Scores & Drawings (Copy) - People Looking out of the Window, Trash, etc., 1962 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aa9a76d2a737c80f37d20/1578990533525/Ba%CC%88ume.jpg Scores & Drawings (Copy) - Trees in Autumn, 1960 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6aa99e0e2e72497ad02c52/1578990533545/Etudes_1000x1413.jpg Scores & Drawings (Copy) - 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test, 1960 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/5b6a940c562fa77529c72fdd/5b6a943703ce64348eb8f9c4/1533711420979/Etudes_1000x1412.jpg Scores & Drawings (Copy) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5e300be89826d330d5b9e716/1580207088990/Cosinus_alpha.jpg Scores & Drawings (Copy) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5e300b5375f9761f104842a1/1580206950283/B%C3%A4ume.jpg Scores & Drawings (Copy) https://kurtkren.info/vertical-m daily 0.75 2020-01-28 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5e3006a039c8eb7ff9e86a85/1580205731215/Etudes_1000x1413.jpg Vertical M. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5e30064445c00d0d20a0491d/1580205640060/Fenstergucker.jpg Vertical M. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/t/5e300677898d7b14b75647d5/1580205690661/Etudes_1000x1413.jpg Vertical M. https://kurtkren.info/texts-1 daily 0.75 2021-02-23 https://kurtkren.info/books-1 daily 0.75 2021-02-23 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/6034fa8eadad1b7becdeebf3/6034fbe7dca12a470dc12807/1614085824480/Which%2BWay%2BKopie.jpg Books https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/6034fa8eadad1b7becdeebf3/6034fa8e62870b0bbfbbdba7/1614085753371/INDEX002_Kren.jpg Books https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/6034fa8eadad1b7becdeebf3/6034fa8e599f2f2a61c85151/1614085625125/INDEX001_Kren.jpg Books https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/6034f84968004568cf882db5/6034f84968004568cf882dbe/1580111820417/Kren_structural%2B_korr.jpg Books Hamlyn, Nicky, Pane,Simon and Rees, A. L. eds. Kurt Kren: Structural Films. Bristol: Intellect Publishers, 2016 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/6034f84968004568cf882db5/6034f84968004568cf882dc6/1580111820415/Kren_Hummel+Kopie.jpg Books Hummel, Julius, ed. Kurt Kren. Film Foto Wiener Aktionismus / Film Photography Viennese Actionism. [German/English] Vienna: Galerie Julius Hummel, 1998. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/6034f84968004568cf882db5/6034f84968004568cf882dc0/1580111820407/Kren_Secession.jpg Books Rhomberg, Kathrin, ed. Kurt Kren. tausendjahrekino. [German/ English] Vienna: Vienna Secession, 1996. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/6034f84968004568cf882db5/6034f84968004568cf882dc2/1580111820404/Tscherkassky_Netz.jpg Books Tscherkassky, Peter, ed. Film Unframed. A History of Austrian Avantgarde-Cinema. Vienna: FilmmuseumSynemaPublikation 2012. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/6034f84968004568cf882db5/6034f84968004568cf882dbc/1580111820402/Ex_underground_Netz.jpg Books Scheugl, Hans, ed. Ex Underground Kurt Kren, seine Filme. [German] Vienna: PVS Verleger, 1996. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad4967aaa49a1b1a2a3f030/6034f84968004568cf882db5/6034f84968004568cf882db6/1580111820398/Kurt_Kren_Unbehagen.jpg Books Trummer, Thomas, ed. Kurt Kren. Das Unbehagen am Film. [German] Vienna: Atelier Augarten. Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst der Österreichischen Galerie Belvedere, 2006.