10/65: Self-Mutilation

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)

Genre:

Drama, Horror

Duration:

5 min

Actor:

Günter Brus

Quality:

HD

Director:

Kurt Kren

Release:

1965

Country:

Austria

IMDb:

5.9