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10/65: Self-Mutilation
10/65: Self-Mutilation
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10/65: SELF-MUTILATION

10/65: Selbstverstümmelung

Directed by Kurt Kren
Austria, 1965
Avant-Garde, Short

Synopsis

The film is developed from a Gunter Brus’ action. It exposes each gesture so that one gets a tense, iconoclastic revelation of a man covered in white plaster, surrounded by razor blades and a range of instruments looking as if they have been taken from an operating theater.

Synopsis

The film is developed from a Gunter Brus’ action. It exposes each gesture so that one gets a tense, iconoclastic revelation of a man covered in white plaster, surrounded by razor blades and a range of instruments looking as if they have been taken from an operating theater.

Our take

With the participation of controversial artists the Vienna Action Group, Kurt Kren created films that explore their visceral, taboo-busting experiments in body art. A drama of symbolic, surrealist self-destruction littered with razor blades and scalpels: Brace yourselves for an all-out assault!