Kurt Kren Movies
- 1957

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...
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- 1996

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.
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- 1956

Piano Salon 1. Floor
Piano Salon 1. Floor01956HD
A silent short film by Kurt Kren.
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- 1981

40/81: Breakfast in Grey
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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...
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- 1966

12/66: Cosinus Alpha
12/66: Cosinus Alpha4.71966HD
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...
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- 1976

32/76: To W + B
32/76: To W + B5.71976HD
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...
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- 1990

46/90 Falter 2
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Kurt Kren short
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- 1968

18/68: Venecia kaputt
18/68: Venecia kaputt01968HD
A short film by Kurt Kren.
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- 1968

17/68: Green-red
17/68: Green-red31968HD
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...
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- 1973

30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam
30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam01973HD
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....
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- 1969

22/69 Happy-End
22/69 Happy-End01969HD
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...
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- 1979

38/79: Sentimental Punk
38/79: Sentimental Punk3.81979HD
'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...
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- 1976

34/76: Tschibo
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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...
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- 1978

36/78: Rischart
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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...
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- 1968

20/68: Honey
20/68: Honey3.51968HD
Kurt Kren films a photo which shows an SS officer standing on a town square which is littered with dead bodies.
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- 1994

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...
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- 1991

47/91 A Celebration
47/91 A Celebration01991HD
A commission by Austrian TV station ORF documenting the anniversary celebration for Kunststücke.
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- 1967

15/67: TV
15/67: TV4.61967HD
Kren frames the image to suggest a proscenium, with a view to the harbor that conveys a literal sense of “tele-vision”. The static...
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- 1997

Homage to Kurt Kren
Homage to Kurt Kren01997HD
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...
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- 1982

41/82 Getting Warm
41/82 Getting Warm8.51982HD
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...
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