Kurt Kren

Kurt Kren was a vital figure in Austrian avant-garde cinema of the postwar period. His structural films-often shot frame-by-frame following elaborately prescored charts and diagrams-have influenced filmmakers for decades even as Kren himself remained a nomadic and obscure public figure. Kurt Kren edited by Nicky Hamlyn Simon Payne and A. L. Rees brings together interviews with Kren film scores and classic out-of-print essays alongside the reflections of contemporary academics and filmmakers to add much-needed critical discussion of Kren's legacy. Taken together the collection challenges the canonical view of Kren that ignores his underground lineage and powerful lyrical imagery.