Synopsis
The word test stands at the beginning of Kren’s Versuch mit synthetischem Ton (A Test with Synthetic Sound), which is really a kind of endurance test which Kren poses to the film material and to the eye. The film makes do with a minimum content in its images (a wall, a pan of a cactus) and models chronologically by using a strict, stanzaic montage arrangement, which is supposed, not to push the primary extension of these motivs into the imaginary realm of images, but just to leave them in their own “superficiality.” The sound, which is directly engraved onto the material, corresponds to this principle, in that it allows only crackling and scratching noises to be audible, exposes itself in unmodeled raw sound and noise spaces. (Michael Palm) —http://www.filmvideo.at/
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Kurt Kren
Kurt Kren (September 20, 1929 – died in Vienna on June 23, 1998) was an Austrian avantgarde filmmaker. He is best known for his involvement with the Vienna Aktionists and the group of films that resulted.
Kurt Kren was born in 1929 in Vienna, Austria to a family of a Jewish father (a bank employee) and German mother. From 1939 till the end of World War II Kren lived in Rotterdam, where he was sent 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 a film career in the early 1950s creating experimental short 8mm films. In 1957 he moved to the 16mm format.
In 1966, Kren participated in the Destruction in Art Symposium in London. In 1968 he visited the USA for the first time, showing his films in New York and St. Louis. After a participation in a happening “Kunst und Revolution” (“Art and Revolution”) at the University of Vienna in 1968, Kren’s films were confiscated… read more
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