"What does it mean to recognize a documentary gesture in Kurt Kren's films? What is being documented? The documentary images that Kren uses in his works do not arise out of a plan, but instead, come from the right moment, a coincidence, a momentary observation, or a seized opportunity." - Michael Palm
This DVD contains:
18/68 Venecia Kaputt, 1968, 20 Sec
22/69 Happy-End, 1969, 4 Min 2 Sec
23/69 Underground Explosion, 1969, 5 Min 7 Sec
24/70 Western, 1970, 2 Min 54 Sec
26/71 Zeichenfilm Balzac und das Auge Gottes, 1971, 31 Sec
27/71 Auf der Pfaueninsel, 1971, 1 Min 1 Sec
29/73 Ready-Made, 1973, 12 Min 20 Sec
30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam, 1973, 3 Min
33/77 Keine Donau, 1977, 8 Min 16 Sec
34/77 Tschibo, 1977, 1 Min 58 Sec
39/81 Which way to Ca?, 1981, 3 Min 18 Sec
40/81 Breakfast im Grauen, 1981, 3 Min 13 Sec
41/82 Getting Warm, 1982, 3 Min 22 Sec
42/83 No film, 1983, 3 Min
43/84 1984, 1984, 1 Min 43 Sec
44/85 Foot´- age shoot´- out, 1985, 3 Min 3 Sec
46/90 Falter 2, 1990, 30 Sec
50/96 Snapspots (for Bruce), 1996, 4 Min 12 Sec
Kurt Kren: Born 1929, died 1998 in Vienna. Starts making experimental 8mm films in the early fifties. 1957 takes up 16mm and serial montage techniques. From 1964 onwards Kren collaborates with the Viennese Actionists Otto Muhl and Gunter Brus. Co-founder of the Vienna Institute of Direct Art and the Austrian Filmmakers Cooperative. Member of the Wiener Secession, the Vienna Institute of Direct Art (1966), the London Filmmakers Coop (1967), the New York Filmmakers Coop (1968), the Progressive Art Production Munich (1968), the Grazer Autorenversammlung (1973).
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Extras
20 pages booklet with exclusive material, bilingual English-German text.
Bonus material: Keine Donau - Kurt Kren und seine Filme, Hans Scheugel, 1988, 55 min
