Kurt Kren Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 1965
    11/65: Helga Philipp Painting

    11/65: Helga Philipp Painting

    11/65: Helga Philipp Painting

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    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
  • 1976
    32/76: To W + B

    32/76: To W + B

    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...

    32/76: To W + B
  • 1969
    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

    01969HD

    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren
  • 1968
    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    01968HD

    A short film by Kurt Kren.

    18/68: Venecia kaputt
  • 1964
    9/64: O Christmas Tree

    9/64: O Christmas Tree

    9/64: O Christmas Tree

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    In 9/64 O Christmas Tree Kren offers a more visually descriptive development of a Muehl "action". The images have been chosen to follow a more...

    9/64: O Christmas Tree
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1973
    30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam

    30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam

    30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam

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    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
  • 1984
    43/84: 1984

    43/84: 1984

    43/84: 1984

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    Kurt Kren recorded the last television debate in the Reagan/Mondale election campaign. In the viewfinder, the television filled the entire picture,...

    43/84: 1984
  • 1967
    15/67: TV

    15/67: TV

    15/67: TV

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    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
  • 1990
    46/90 Falter 2

    46/90 Falter 2

    46/90 Falter 2

    01990HD

    Kurt Kren short

    46/90 Falter 2
  • 1968
    20/68: Honey

    20/68: Honey

    20/68: Honey

    3.51968HD

    Kurt Kren films a photo which shows an SS officer standing on a town square which is littered with dead bodies.

    20/68: Honey
  • 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
  • 1995
    49/95: thousandyearsofcinema

    49/95: thousandyearsofcinema

    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...

    49/95: thousandyearsofcinema
  • 1978
    36/78: Rischart

    36/78: Rischart

    36/78: Rischart

    51978HD

    Hans-Peter Hochenrath and Birgit Hein made a documentary film about me for the Saarland Network and wanted me to make a self-portrait. Instead of...

    36/78: Rischart