26/71 Zeichenfilm-Balzac Und Das Auge Gottes

1971
Country: Austria
Duration: 1 mins
B&W,
Sound: Silent
Available Format/s: 16mm

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“Zeichenfilm is a play on the idea of trick film… The 30 second work is shown twice in case the viewer missed something the first time. In crude, hand drawn animation, Zeichenfilm evokes the scatological, sadomasochistic actions and performances of Otto Muehl and Gunter Brus, which Kren filmed during his second period. In Zeichenfilm, a male figure hangs himself, achieves a monstrous erection and ejaculates into a woman’s mouth. She, in turn, hangs herself, he enters her vaginally, then anally. Finally, she defecates on the left side of the frame wherein appears an eye of God, while on the right, in a cartoon box, the words “Aber Otto” (“But Otto”) materialize, a comic reference to Otto Muehl.” – Regina Cornwell, The Other Side: European Avant-Garde Cinema 1960 – 1980.

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