Kurt Kren Movies

  • 1978
    37/78: Tree Again

    37/78: Tree Again

    37/78: Tree Again

    5.71978HD

    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...

    37/78: Tree Again
  • 1973
    30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam

    30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam

    30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam

    01973HD

    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....

    30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam
  • 1975
    31/75: Asylum

    31/75: Asylum

    31/75: Asylum

    5.11975HD

    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...

    31/75: Asylum
  • 1956
    Piano Salon 1. Floor

    Piano Salon 1. Floor

    Piano Salon 1. Floor

    01956HD

    A silent short film by Kurt Kren.

    Piano Salon 1. Floor
  • 1982
    41/82 Getting Warm

    41/82 Getting Warm

    41/82 Getting Warm

    8.51982HD

    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...

    41/82 Getting Warm
  • 1973
    28/73: Time Exposure(s)

    28/73: Time Exposure(s)

    28/73: Time Exposure(s)

    2.71973HD

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

    28/73: Time Exposure(s)
  • 1994
    48/94 Fragment W.E.

    48/94 Fragment W.E.

    48/94 Fragment W.E.

    01994HD

    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...

    48/94 Fragment W.E.
  • 1968
    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    01968HD

    A short film by Kurt Kren.

    18/68: Venecia kaputt
  • 1979
    38/79: Sentimental Punk

    38/79: Sentimental Punk

    38/79: Sentimental Punk

    3.81979HD

    'It was in San Francisco at a punk festival. I was already high and the air was so thick in the rooms that you could cut it with a knife. I had a...

    38/79: Sentimental Punk
  • 1962
    5/62: People Looking out of the Window, Trash, etc.

    5/62: People Looking out of the Window, Trash, etc.

    5/62: People Looking out of the Window, Trash, etc.

    5.51962HD

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

    5/62: People Looking out of the Window, Trash, etc.
  • 1960
    2/60: 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test

    2/60: 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test

    2/60: 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test

    5.51960HD

    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...

    2/60: 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test
  • 1965
    11/65: Helga Philipp Painting

    11/65: Helga Philipp Painting

    11/65: Helga Philipp Painting

    21965HD

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

    11/65: Helga Philipp Painting
  • 1981
    40/81: Breakfast in Grey

    40/81: Breakfast in Grey

    40/81: Breakfast in Grey

    91981HD

    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...

    40/81: Breakfast in Grey
  • 1969
    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

    01969HD

    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren
  • 1991
    47/91 A Celebration

    47/91 A Celebration

    47/91 A Celebration

    01991HD

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

    47/91 A Celebration
  • 1996
    50/96 Snapshots (For Bruce)

    50/96 Snapshots (For Bruce)

    50/96 Snapshots (For Bruce)

    8.51996HD

    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)
  • 1957
    1/57: Experiment with Synthetic Sound (Test)

    1/57: Experiment with Synthetic Sound (Test)

    1/57: Experiment with Synthetic Sound (Test)

    4.71957HD

    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...

    1/57: Experiment with Synthetic Sound (Test)
  • 1967
    13/67: Sinus Beta

    13/67: Sinus Beta

    13/67: Sinus Beta

    3.51967HD

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

    13/67: Sinus Beta
  • 1976
    32/76: To W + B

    32/76: To W + B

    32/76: To W + B

    5.71976HD

    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...

    32/76: To W + B
  • 1997
    Homage to Kurt Kren

    Homage to Kurt Kren

    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...

    Homage to Kurt Kren