2/60: 48 Heads From The Szondi-Test
About
Following early experiments on 8mm between 1953 and 1957, [Kren] made his first 16mm film VERSUCH MIT SYNTHETISCHEM TON (1957), including a drawn soundtrack beginning to develop the notions of formal relationships between simple images. But his next three films, made between then and 1961, showed the systematic direction of his work most clearly: 48 KOPFE AUS DEM SZONDI TEST (1960) and BAUME IM HERBST (1960) being shot according to system, and MAUERN-POSITIV-NEGATIV UND WEG (1961) being edited that way. It is also evident in these films and is confirmed in his next, FENSTERGUCKER, ABFALL, ETC. (1962), that even if Kren rejected poetic or narrative intention, the images of his work were in no way neutral, arbitrary or convenient fillers for a mathematical system." - Malcolm Le Grice, Abstract Film and Beyond, 1977 "[I]n this concentrationary universe, no one's his own self, everyone's everyone and nothing. Ruthlessly executed, the formal idea becomes a gruesome philosophical jest." – Raymond Durgnat, International Times, 1966
Films
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One-Man Show
Kurt Kren16mm, color and b/w, 72 min - Read MoreExperimental
3/60: Trees During Autumn
Kurt Kren16mm, black and white, sound, 5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
4/61: Walls Pos Neg. Way
Kurt Kren16mm, black and white, silent, 6.75 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
5/62: Maggoty Moon
Kurt Kren16mm, color, silent, 5.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
6/64: Papa & Mama
Kurt Kren16mm, color, silent, 4 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
7/64 Leda & The Swan
Kurt Kren16mm, color, silent, 3 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
8/64: Ana-Action Gunther Brus
Kurt Kren16mm, black and white, silent, 2.75 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
9/64: O Tannenbaum
Kurt Kren16mm, color, silent, 3 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
10/65-67: Self Destruction
Kurt Kren16mm, black and white, silent, 5.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
11/65: Helga Philipp Painting
Kurt Kren16mm, black and white, silent, 2.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
12/66: Cosinius Alpha
Kurt Kren16mm, black and white, silent, 9.25 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
13/67: Sinus Beta
Kurt Kren16mm, black and white, silent, 6 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
15/67: T. V.
Kurt Kren16mm, black and white, silent, 4.25 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
16/67: September 20
Kurt Kren16mm, black and white, silent, 6.75 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
17/68: Green-Red
Kurt Kren16mm, color, silent, 3.25 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
18/68: Venecia Kaputt
Kurt Kren16mm, black and white, silent, 1 minRental format: 16mm