664 Mom and Dad An Otto Mühl Happening

In the first action he filmed 664 Mama und Papa Krens 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 Shotcountershot 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