Kurt Kren Movies

  • 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
  • 1968
    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    01968HD

    A short film by Kurt Kren.

    18/68: Venecia kaputt
  • 1990
    46/90 Falter 2

    46/90 Falter 2

    46/90 Falter 2

    01990HD

    Kurt Kren short

    46/90 Falter 2
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 1971
    26/71: Cartoon - Balzac and the Eye of God

    26/71: Cartoon - Balzac and the Eye of God

    26/71: Cartoon - Balzac and the Eye of God

    5.51971HD

    Zeichenfilm - Balzac oder das Auge Gottes is a play on the idea of trick film. And trick film it is. The 30-second work is shown twice in case the...

    26/71: Cartoon - Balzac and the Eye of God
  • 1969
    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

    01969HD

    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1966
    12/66: Cosinus Alpha

    12/66: Cosinus Alpha

    12/66: Cosinus Alpha

    4.71966HD

    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...

    12/66: Cosinus Alpha
  • 1967
    15/67: TV

    15/67: TV

    15/67: TV

    4.61967HD

    Kren frames the image to suggest a proscenium, with a view to the harbor that conveys a literal sense of “tele-vision”. The static...

    15/67: TV
  • 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)
  • 1976
    34/76: Tschibo

    34/76: Tschibo

    34/76: Tschibo

    61976HD

    This film shows, with the use of single-frames, Kren's diary-like notes from 1968 to 1976, especially his entries about the work on the three...

    34/76: Tschibo
  • 1956
    Rome

    Rome

    Rome

    01956HD

    Vacation pictures from Rome.

    Rome
  • 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