Kurt Kren Movies

  • 1960
    3/60: Trees in Autumn

    3/60: Trees in Autumn

    3/60: Trees in Autumn

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    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...

    3/60: Trees in Autumn
  • 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
  • 1968
    17/68: Green-red

    17/68: Green-red

    17/68: Green-red

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    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...

    17/68: Green-red
  • 1981
    39/81 Which Way to CA?

    39/81 Which Way to CA?

    39/81 Which Way to CA?

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

    39/81 Which Way to CA?
  • 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
  • 1983
    42/83: No Film

    42/83: No Film

    42/83: No Film

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    "In 1983, I got a job as a museum attendant and abandoned film-making entirely. And so the question arose: "no film?," and the conclusion I came to...

    42/83: No Film
  • 1957
    Black Movie I

    Black Movie I

    Black Movie I

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    Marc Adrian´s FILMBLOCK 0 paces out the foundations of a ritual of self-realization. With its matte surfaces (colorful leader) and easily...

    Black Movie I
  • 1956
    Rome

    Rome

    Rome

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    Vacation pictures from Rome.

    Rome
  • 1977
    33/77 No Danube

    33/77 No Danube

    33/77 No Danube

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    Kurt Kren short

    33/77 No Danube
  • 1996
    50/96 Snapshots (For Bruce)

    50/96 Snapshots (For Bruce)

    50/96 Snapshots (For Bruce)

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    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)
  • 1979
    38/79: Sentimental Punk

    38/79: Sentimental Punk

    38/79: Sentimental Punk

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    '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
  • 1969
    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

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

    Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren
  • 1997
    Homage to Kurt Kren

    Homage to Kurt Kren

    Homage to Kurt Kren

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    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
  • 1970
    Portrait: Kurt Kren

    Portrait: Kurt Kren

    Portrait: Kurt Kren

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    "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.)...

    Portrait: Kurt Kren
  • 1982
    41/82 Getting Warm

    41/82 Getting Warm

    41/82 Getting Warm

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    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
  • 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
  • 1973
    28/73: Time Exposure(s)

    28/73: Time Exposure(s)

    28/73: Time Exposure(s)

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

    28/73: Time Exposure(s)
  • 1968
    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    18/68: Venecia kaputt

    18/68: Venecia kaputt

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    A short film by Kurt Kren.

    18/68: Venecia kaputt
  • 1985
    44/85: Foot'-age Shoot'-out

    44/85: Foot'-age Shoot'-out

    44/85: Foot'-age Shoot'-out

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    "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...

    44/85: Foot'-age Shoot'-out
  • 1961
    4/61: Walls Pos.-Neg. and Way

    4/61: Walls Pos.-Neg. and Way

    4/61: Walls Pos.-Neg. and Way

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

    4/61: Walls Pos.-Neg. and Way