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Kurt Kren

Kurt Kren

Director · Born 1929-09-20 · Wien, Austria

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Biography

Kurt Kren was born in 1929 in Vienna, Austria from a Jewish father and a German mother. From 1939 till the end of World War II, Kren lived in Rotterdam, where he was sent to with one of the Children's Transports. In 1947 Kren returned to Vienna, and his father provided him a job at the National Bank. He began making films in 1957. 2/60 48 Köpfe Aus Dem Szondi -Test (1960) was his first serial film and 3/60 Bäume Im Herbst (1960) confirmed this structural orientation. He realized in the 1960s his most famous films with the Viennese actionists, where his skill of short film blossomed. In 1966, he took part in the « Destruction in Art Symposium » organized by Metzger in London. In 1968 he visited the USA for the first time, showing his films in New York and St. Louis. This very year he became a founder of the Austria Filmmakers Cooperative. After a participation in a happening "Kunst und Revolution" ("Art and Revolution") at the University of Vienna in 1968, Kren's films were confiscated and he was fired from the National Bank. He participated in 1970 in the International Underground Film Festival (London) and in 1971, in the Cannes Film Festival. He then moved to Cologne for five ye…

Directed

  1. 15/67: TV (1967) — Director
  2. 37/78: Tree Again (1978) — Director
  3. 31/75: Asylum (1975) — Director
  4. 6/64: Mom and Dad (An Otto Mühl Happening) (1964) — Director
  5. 10/65: Self-Mutilation (1965) — Director
  6. 1/57: Experiment with Synthetic Sound (Test) (1957) — Director
  7. 3/60: Trees in Autumn (1960) — Director
  8. 8/64: Ana - Action Brus (1964) — Director
  9. 7/64: Leda and the Swan (1964) — Director
  10. 2/60: 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test (1960) — Director
  11. 9/64: O Christmas Tree (1964) — Director
  12. 10b/65: Silver – Action Brus (1965) — Director
  13. 49/95: thousandyearsofcinema (1995) — Director
  14. 38/79: Sentimental Punk (1979) — Director
  15. 16/67: September 20th (1967) — Director
  16. 26/71: Cartoon - Balzac and the Eye of God (1971) — Director
  17. 44/85: Foot'-age Shoot'-out (1985) — Director
  18. 5/62: People Looking out of the Window, Trash, etc. (1962) — Director
  19. 36/78: Rischart (1978) — Director
  20. 10c/65: Brus Wishes You a Merry Christmas (1965) — Director
  21. 12/66: Cosinus Alpha (1966) — Director
  22. 28/73: Time Exposure(s) (1973) — Director
  23. 23​/69: Underground Explosion (1969) — Director
  24. 32/76: To W + B (1976) — Director
  25. 4/61: Walls Pos.-Neg. and Way (1961) — Director
  26. 13/67: Sinus Beta (1967) — Director
  27. 20/68: Honey (1968) — Director
  28. 17/68: Green-red (1968) — Director
  29. 11/65: Helga Philipp Painting (1965) — Director
  30. 50/96 Snapshots (For Bruce) (1996) — Director
  31. 41/82 Getting Warm (1982) — Director
  32. 40/81: Breakfast in Grey (1981) — Director
  33. 39/81 Which Way to CA? (1981) — Director
  34. 34/76: Tschibo (1976) — Director
  35. 43/84: 1984 (1984) — Director
  36. 33/77 No Danube (1977) — Director
  37. 18/68: Venecia kaputt (1968) — Director
  38. 22/69 Happy-End (1969) — Director
  39. 24/70 Western (1970) — Director
  40. 27/71 On Peacock Isle (1971) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Sodoma (1970)
  2. Exit... But No Panic (1980) — Voyeur
  3. Birth of a Nation (1997) — Self
  4. 10c/65: Brus Wishes You a Merry Christmas (1965) — himself
  5. 36/78: Rischart (1978)
  6. Homage to Kurt Kren (1997)
  7. Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
  8. Becoming Otto (2010)
  9. 29/73 Ready-Made (1973) — Himself
  10. Portrait: Kurt Kren (1970) — Himself
  11. Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren (1969) — Himself
  12. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3 (1993)
  13. No Danube - Kurt Kren and His Films (1988) — Self