Günter Brus
Acting
Biography
Günter Brus is a controversial Austrian painter, performance artist, graphic artist, experimental filmmaker and writer.
Born: September 27, 1938
Place of Birth: Ardning, Styria, Austria
Known For
Satisfaction
An experimental, bizarre and a very different shooting of an association between the sexes.
10/65: Self-Mutilation
Kren’s 10/65 Selfmutilation is developed from a Gunter Brus “action”. What the film emphasizes is the surrealistic drama of symbolic self-destruction that Kren drew out of Brus’ action, pacing out each gesture so that one gets a tense, iconoclastic revelation of a man covered in white plaster lying surrounded by razor blades and a range of instruments looking as if they have been taken from an operating theatre. The blades, scissors and scalpels are gradually inserted into him in a ritualistic self-operation. (Stephen Dwoskin)
10b/65: Silver – Action Brus
"Action" by Günter Brus. At first Kren did not want to show the film, because the image is underexposed. A copy of the negative material turned out to be better than the original material and so Kren did show the film. The film's title relates to Brus' use of silver paper for his action.
Psycho-motorische Geräuschaktion
Four young men affected by psychological motorcar reactions and effluents that get more excited, crazy and freaked out as times passes.
Becoming Otto
A portrait of the Austrian avant-garde artist Otto Mühl/Muehl (1925-2013), whose work combined sex, violence, gastronomy and bodily effluence with unbridled abandon.
Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten
Four men, one woman and a cat in a room. The men drink and discuss. Things get a bit violent. The masochist acts out his desires by himself. Random fuss and sex occurs. Suddenly the woman gets her baby to change diapers. Odd things around the child. The cat gets abused. This is Otto Muehl going Fassbinder.
Back to Fucking Cambridge
About a group of graduates from Cambridge University who go back to their college to visit a friend who has stayed on there. Otto Muehl founded a community of artists in Vienna in 1970 with the aim of exploring a completely free life practice. Since 1972, this society experiment at the Friedrichshof in Burgenland, 60 kilometers from Vienna, further developed. From the mid-1970s, other municipalities were founded in 30 European cities. At Friedrichshof itself lived at times up to 240 members and visitors.
The Films of Kurt Kren 1957-1995
A collection of shorts by Kurt Kren. Some are based on performaces by Viennese Actionists such as Günter Brus and Otto Mühl.
Filmography
as Alfred Kubin
as The masochistic husband
as Himself
as himself