31/75 Asylum

Kurt Kren / Austria / 1975 / Czech Premiere / 8 min.

synopsis

During the three weeks before spring, the filmmaker captured the same panoramic view from the window. Each day, he inserted three identical rolls of film into the camera in a repeating sequence, but each day he put a differently perforated mask on the lens and opened the aperture at different sections of the 90-metre film strip. According to a predetermined scheme, this created a time-lapse collage in which moments of the same place from different times appear side by side.

biography

Kurt Kren (1929–1998), a pioneer and important representative of structural cinema, created his works on the basis of predetermined rules of patterns and rhythms, which he strictly followed during filming and editing. Ji.hlava IDFF screened his 38/79 Sentimental Punk (1979) in 2020 and 3/60 Trees in Autumn (1960) in 2018.