1964奥地利短片
导演：Kurt Kren
Lord of the Frames: Kurt Kren
by Peter Tscherkassky
Translation: Elisabeth Frank-Großebner
reprinted from exhibition catalog, Kurt Kren at Wiener Secession, 1996
In 1964, "Wien Film" refused to print 6/64 Mama und Papa. When Kurt Kren handed in the original, the film grader said with an undertone of sympathy that, given the many cuts, one would not be able to make out anything, anyway. His worries were groundless: when Kren came to pick up the print, some people with flushed faces left the projection room, telling him to get out and never to come back again. A few months later, a similar scene took place at "Listo", where 9/64 O Tannenbaum was not accepted. Kren ultimately found a place that took his films, based on actions by Otto Muhl and Gunter Brus: a house on Peter Kaiser Gasse in Jedlersdorf, a neighborhood in the East of Vienna, on the other side of the river Danube. There, in the 21st district, on the most remote outskirts of town, films were developed and printed in self-made contraptions reminiscent of washing-machine drums. The man who ran the business single-handedly intimated that he was used to explicit images owing to customers from the blue movie scene. The facts that the credits in a few Kren works from those days are slightly out of place and that the name "Kren" next to the copyright sign goes beyond the edge of the frame can be explained in this context. On request, credits were in-house productions, but they were made with a camera that had no view finder, for which reason slipped boards were none too unusual. There were no objections to the films' content, formal and creative issues played a secondary role.
Be that as it may - the "© Kren" jutting out over the frame can easily be understood as a metaphor of the avant-garde and a harbinger of cinema outside the screen - Expanded Cinema. It is precisely during the "Jedlersdorf period" in his oeuvre that Kurt Kren demonstrates some of its best knacks to modern cinematography.
(Source: http://www.hi-beam.net/mkr/kk/kk-bio....
http://www.ubu.com/film/kren.html
