10/65: Self-Mutilation (1965)

  • NR
  • 01/01/1965 (AT)
  • Drama, Horror
  • 5m

Overview

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)

Kurt Kren

Director

Cast

Günter Brus's headshot

Günter Brus

Himself

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