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 filmKurt 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 »most important« in cinematic history.
(Peter Tscherkassky)
1/57 VERSUCH MIT SYNTHETISCHEM TON (TEST) (1/57 Experiment with Synthetic Sound (Test)) 1:23 min
2/60 48 KÖPFE AUS DEM SZONDI-TEST (2/60 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test) 4:19 min
3/60 BÄUME IM HERBST (3/60 Trees in Autumn) 5:03 min
4/61 MAUERN POS.NEG. UND WEG (4/61 Walls pos.-neg. and Way) 6:09 min
5/62 FENSTERGUCKER, ABFALL etc. (5/62 People Looking Out of the Window, Trash etc.) 4:48 min
11/65 BILD HELGA PHILIPP (11/65 Helga Philipp Painting) 2:29 min
15/67 TV 4:08 min
17/68 GRÜN-ROT (17/68 Green-red) 2:56 min
20/68 SCHATZI 2:29 min
28/73 ZEITAUFNAHME(N) (28/73 Time Exposure(s)) 2:56 min
31/75 ASYL (31/75 Asylum) 8:26 min
32/76 AN W+B (32/76 To W+B) 7:42 min
36/78 RISCHART 3:02 min
37/78 TREE AGAIN 3:46 min
38/79 SENTIMENTAL PUNK 4:30 min
49/95 TAUSENDJAHREKINO (49/95 thousandyearsofcinema) 2:40 min
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Trained in Anthropology, I was never pleased with the appropriation of the term "Structuralism," by Sitney, or any other film theorist. Took a term with explicit meanings and turned it into sludge. Regardless, Kren's films bear little resemblance to Snow's or Gidal's films, two experimental film makers associated with the term, "Structural." I loved most things on the disc, but "TV," "Schatzi," and "Tree Again" are riveting.
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