THE FILMS OF KURT KREN
Filmmaker KURT KREN
Kurt Kren was an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker. He is best known for his involvement with the Vienna Aktionists and the group of films that resulted, although this accounts for only a part of his career, and he later returned to the Structural roots of his third film 3/60: Bäume Im Herbst.
GME distributes DVD editions of the following Kurt Kren films:
KURT KREN: ACTION FILMS
Kurt Kren (Austria)
Kurt Kren's Action films are the most tangible way of comprehending the nature of Actionist works of art and events today. Kren's Action films make it possible to immerse oneself into their structural essence so as to grasp their energetic and aesthetic meaning.
Kurt Kren (Austria)
Kurt Kren´s achievements with regard to the montage of short cuts in his early works was many years ahead of the rest of the (film)world, in both form and content. Kurt Kren was a pioneere: an avantgardist in the classic and best sense of the word. A filmmaker who knows how to think in images like few others in this trade, and who realized these images in films that are among the "most beautiful" and - if it's important - "most important" in cinematic history.
KURT KREN: WHICH WAY TO CA?
Kurt Kren (Austria)
What does it mean to recognize a documentary gesture in 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.