Kurt Kren Movies

'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...

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...

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

"Action" by Günter Brus. At first Kren did not want to show the film, because the image is underexposed. A copy of the negative material turned...

Vacation pictures from Rome.

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...

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...

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...

Ludwig Schönherr | Federal Republic of Germany | 1969 | 18 fps | 3'25" | silent

The first embodiment of (a) concept of structural activity in cinema comes in Kren's Bäume im Herbst, where the camera as a subjective observer...

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

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

A silent short film by Kurt Kren.

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

"It became easier to understand Kren's method of approaching film when he illustrated his matter-of-factness with a story: he was asked to shoot and...

A short film by Kurt Kren.

The film uses slides - photographic planes - which show different surfaces and finishes of a wall, which have been erroded by time. Kren stacks the...

The making of pictures becomes the central issue in itself in that, with an analytical single-picture procedure, picture-taking tourists on Vienna's...

Kurt Kren short

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