Kurt Kren Movies

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

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

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

Kurt Kren records snapshots of visitors to Vienna who are photographed in front of the statue of Johann Strauss Jr.

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...

Kren on his way from Vermont to California. Kren says that his various cars are the thread which runs through the story. (Hans Scheugl)

Another try by the Viennese actionists around Otto Mühl, trying to shock the middle-class bourgeoisie with all sorts of explicit sexual and...

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...

A report about an Underground Festival on tour through Germany and Switzerland.

A short film by Kurt Kren.

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...

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

Four men, one woman and a cat in a room. The men drink and discuss. Things get a bit violent. The masochist acts out his desires by himself. Random...

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

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...

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

"This film is an attempt in focusing. I visited Kurt Kren in Vienna. (Kurt Kren is considered to be the father of the European underground film.)...

A silent short film by Kurt Kren.

Kurt Kren short

Kurt Kren short