The film looks at the process of creating images of memory and history through filmmaking via a reenactment of the complex friendship between so-called ‘Nazi hunter’ Simon Wiesenthal and Albert Speer, the third Reich’s chief architect. (Berlinale 2014)
Vom Grller is seated in a dentist’s chair. She is undergoing a treatment that involves several phases and is composed in an escalating rhythm. Why Life Is Worth Living is a question and an answer at one and the same time: Why is it really worth it (Berlinale 2014)
Already the title leads one astray: Vom Grller′s film Im Wiener Prater is, namely, not about the amusement park that one normally associates with this name. The spectacle in this film takes place in a much more basic sense. (Berlinale 2014)
Guilty Until Proven Innocent is a portrait of a group of women standing behind a wire mesh fence. The camera searches perhaps for traces of guilt and innocence. And in the meantime it documents traces of living. (Berlinale 2014)
Kren took some scenes from a number of movies by filming directly from the screen without looking through the camera's view-finder. He inserted the missing sexual climax, by taking material left-over from (his documentation of) Mühl's Libi-Aktion. (Hans Scheugl: "Die Filme. Eine kommentierte Filmographie," in: (ed.) Scheugl Ex Underground Kurt Kren. Seine Filme, Vienna 1996)
Actions by: Günter Brus, Otto Muehl Peter Weibel, Oswald Wiener, an unidentified masochist. Experimental documentary film about the famous happening at the University of Vienna, a consequence of which was Günter Brus being forced to leave Austria. The original material is combined with sequences from the "material-action nr. 54" by Otto Muehl and a film about how to keep dogs....