Günter Brus
Actor · b. 1938 · Ardning, Styria, Austria
Günter Brus is a controversial Austrian painter, performance artist, graphic artist, experimental filmmaker and writer.
Movies10
MovieDocumentaryA portrait of the Austrian avant-garde artist Otto Mühl/Muehl (1925-2013), whose work combined sex, violence, gastronomy and bodily effluence with unbridled abandon.
Becoming Otto
2010
Movie3.0DramaComedyFour young men affected by psychological motorcar reactions and effluents that get more excited, crazy and freaked out as times passes.
Psycho-motorische Geräuschaktion
1967 · 4 votes
Movie9.5DramaFour 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.
Satisfaction
1968 · 1 votes
- Movie2.7
A kind of home movie made in Brus' apartment. Brus' Christmas wishes can be seen on a poster which he painted and which he holds for a short time in front of the camera.
Movie8.0ComedyAbout 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.
Back to Fucking Cambridge
1987 · 1 votes
MovieKren had composed a diary-like piece containing subtle irony with his 27/71 Auf der Pfaueninsel (On Peacock Isle). The lengthy titles which are one minute long, in which five people are ceremoniously introduced, are followed by only twenty seconds of pictures. These pictures, filmed by Kren have a wobbly quality to them, as the camera surreptitiously looks from far off at a group of people walking away. "Family movie" is the bracketed subtitle of this film.
Movie5.3"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.
- Movie3.6
A collage of many visuals. A man urinates; a man has a drink. A man defecates; someone eats a meal. 16/67 September 20: ‘The Eating Drinking Shitting Pissing Film'.
Movie5.9DramaHorrorKren’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)
- Movie5.7Drama
This three-minute film was far more akin to the American-style "happening" in that the content was not particularly extreme. It was built up from items such as broken bicycle parts, a nude model, pieces of furniture, and these elements were then obscured or transformed by having a layer of paint thrown on them.