Otto Muehl
Directing
Biography
Otto Muehl/Otto Mühl was an Austrian artist, who was known as one of the co-founders as well as a main participant of Viennese Actionism and for founding the Friedrichshof Commune.
Born: June 16, 1925
Place of Birth: Grodnau, Mariasdorf, Austria
Known For
Satisfaction
An experimental, bizarre and a very different shooting of an association between the sexes.
Shameless
After the violent death of a prostitute, her father tries to find the people who are responsible for the fall of the young woman.
Sweet Movie
The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
7/64: Leda and the Swan
Based on a Muehl Happening. The almost convulsive use of juxtaposition reappears here, but the captured gesture assumes a more erotic sensitivity, though the "action" itself was primarily a gradual destruction of the erotic.
Oh Sensibility
One of Otto Muehl's actionist films, where a man and a woman play around with the bird in a rather unwholesome way
My Fathers, My Mother and Me
Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family - these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl in the 1970's. Because of these principles Paul-Julien Robert, who was born into this commune, for a long time didn't know who was his biological father.
6/64: Mom and Dad (An Otto Mühl Happening)
In the first action he filmed, 6/64 Mama und Papa, Kren’s editing leads to many interlocking continuous shots; central takes recur like a leitmotif, circular motion and networking can be observed throughout the film. Kren painstakingly weaves the fury in front of his camera lens into dense geometrical figures. Shot/countershot sequences alternate, lumping back and forth between single (!) frames, they turn the Actionist turmoil into ornaments, rigid geometrical patterns, the equivalent in time to what Mondrian used to distill on canvas in space. (Peter Tscherkassky)
Psycho-motorische Geräuschaktion
Four young men affected by psychological motorcar reactions and effluents that get more excited, crazy and freaked out as times passes.
Sodoma
The Austrian avant-gardist Otto Muehl may well be the most scandalous filmmaker to ever work in cinema, and Sodoma stands as his most famous work. This creation takes the experiments a bit further down the road.
Slaves in Paradise
A close look at the Austrian far-left Friedrichshof Commune which was set up in 1972 by artist Otto Muehl. It was dissolved in 1990 when Muehl was convicted of the abuse of teenagers who lived in the commune.
Filmography
as Self
as Sigmund Freud
as Self
as Member of Therapie-Komune
as Self
as Otto
as himself (as Otto Mühl)