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10.0
41/82 Getting Warm
1982
Director
Kurt Kren
Directing
Born:September 20, 1929
Died:June 23, 1998(aged 68)
Birthplace:Wien, Austria
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CommunityBiography
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 years. Retrospectives were set up by the London National Film Theatre in 1976 and the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1979. He was also involved in the Dokumenta 6 of Kassel in 1977. From 1978 to 1989, Kren lived in the USA and presented lectures for universities and schools. He did many jobs such as security officer in the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Within this period he made his bad home movies as he used to call them inspired by his travels across the country. He finally returned to his native Vienna in 1990. He died from pneumonia in Vienna in 1998.
Filmography (59 movies)
10.0
10.0
39/81 Which Way to CA?
1981
Director
10.0
10.0
23/69: Underground Explosion
1969
Director
10.0
10.0
43/84: 1984
1984
Director
9.0
9.0
40/81 Breakfast im Grauen
1981
Director
8.0
8.0
50/96 Snapshots (For Bruce)
1996
Director
6.7
6.7
44/85: Foot'-age Shoot'-out
1985
Director
6.4
6.4
3/60: Trees in Autumn
1960
Director
6.2
6.2
26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes
1971
Director
6.0
6.0
34/76: Tschibo
1976
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6.0
6.0
2/60: 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test
1960
Director
5.8
5.8
9/64: O Christmas Tree
1964
Director
5.7
5.7
10/65: Self-Mutilation
1965
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5.5
5.5
37/78: Tree Again
1978
Director
5.4
5.4
8/64: Ana - Action Brus
1964
Director
5.3
5.3
42/83: No Film
1983
Director
5.2
5.2
7/64: Leda and the Swan
1964
Director
5.0
5.0
5/62: People Looking out of the Window, Trash, etc.
1962
Director
4.8
4.8
31/75: Asylum
1975
Director
4.7
4.7
12/66: Cosinus Alpha
1966
Director
4.5
4.5
36/78: Rischart
1978
Director
4.5
4.5
Oh Sensibility
1970
Director
4.5
4.5
10b/65: Silver – Action Brus
1965
Director
4.4
4.4
15/67: TV
1967
Producer
4.4
4.4
1/57: Experiment with Synthetic Sound (Test)
1957
Director
4.3
4.3
6/64: Mom and Dad (An Otto Mühl Happening)
1964
Director
3.7
3.7
49/95: thousandyearsofcinema
1995
Director
3.6
3.6
Exit... But No Panic
1980
as voyeur
3.5
3.5
38/79: Sentimental Punk
1979
Director
3.0
3.0
13/67: Sinus Beta
1967
Director
3.0
3.0
4/61: Walls Pos.-Neg. and Way
1961
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3.0
3.0
20/68: Schatzi
1968
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3.0
3.0
32/76: To W + B
1976
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3.0
3.0
17/68: Green-red
1968
Director
2.9
2.9
Sodoma
1970
Writer
2.5
2.5
10c/65: Brus wishes his Christmas on you
1965
Director
2.3
2.3
16/67: September 20th
1967
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2.0
2.0
11/65: Helga Philipp Painting
1965
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2.0
2.0
28/73: Time Exposure(s)
1973
Director
Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren
1969
as Himself
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3
1993
29/73 Ready-Made
1973
Director
Homage to Kurt Kren
1997
No Danube - Kurt Kren and His Films
1988
as Self
Becoming Otto
2010
Portrait: Kurt Kren
1970
as Himself
27/71 On Peacock Isle
1971
Director
46/90 Falter 2
1990
Director
The Films of Kurt Kren 1957-1995
2001
Director
Black Movie I
1957
Director
18/68: Venecia kaputt
1968
Director
24/70 Western
1970
Director
33/77 No Danube
1977
Director
22/69 Happy-End
1969
Director
47/91 A Celebration
1991
Director
Piano Salon 1. Floor
1956
Director
Das Walk
1956
Director
Rome
1956
Director
30/73 Coop Cinema Amsterdam
1973
Director
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