A satire on the false happiness provided by consumer goods and bourgeois rituals done in an eye-poppingly gorgeous, extremely artificial style that ingeniously mixes colour with black and white, and combines live action with animation and even bits of puppetry!
In an interview with Hans Scheugl about the ideas and techniques behind some of his films, the film-maker Kurt Kren told the following anecdote, which sheds an interesting light on his work. For his film Tree again (1978), Kren used a highly sensitive infra-red color film, a type which usually has to be developed within a very short period of time. However, Kren who has always ...
Asyl is one of Kren's most formally ambitious works, an experiment in time lapse photography, multiple exposures, and segmented images. When he moved to a home in the country, Kren set up a static camera nearby, and over the course of 21 non-consecutive days, he fed the same strip of film stock through the camera once per day. In front of the lens, Kren also placed a masking bo...
This short film of Ivan Zulueta is a masterpice realize before Arrebato. Without a screenplay the film experiment the montage with still images and the sound.