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Otto Muehl/Otto Mühl was an Austrian artist, who was known as one of the co-founders as well as a main participant of Viennese Actionism and for founding the Friedrichshof Commune.
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08 February 1968
After the violent death of a prostitute, her father tries to find the people who are responsible for the fall of the young woman.
01 January 1985
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
12 June 1974
The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
01 June 2010
A portrait of the Austrian avant-garde artist Otto Mühl/Muehl (1925-2013), whose work combined sex, violence, gastronomy and bodily effluence with unbridled abandon.
01 January 1968
Libi (1968), whose title is perhaps a punning conflation of “love” (“liebe” in German) and “libido,” begins with an onscreen title: “DIESER FILM ZEIGT WIE DAS LEBEN EBEN SO IST” (“This film shows how life actually is”).
31 December 1971
A subversive and experimental film by Otto Muehl.
01 January 1984
Forced collectivism, famines, errors and mistakes mark Stalin´s ruthless rise to dictorial power and only increase his madness until he even declares a chicken to be an English spy that should be liquidated.
01 April 1968
Four 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.
01 October 1964
In the first action he filmed, 6/64 Mama und Papa, Kren’s editing leads to many interlocking continuous shots; central takes recur like a leitmotif, circular motion and networking can be observed throughout the film.
01 January 1977
This film is a kind of anthology about Vienna, from the invention of film to the present day. The aim is to break down the usual clichéd "image of Vienna" such as that found in the traditional "Vienna Film" by juxtaposing documentary footage, newly shot material and subjective sequences created by various artists.
15 November 1987
About a group of graduates from Cambridge University who go back to their college to visit a friend who has stayed on there.
01 January 1967
Four young men affected by psychological motorcar reactions and effluents that get more excited, crazy and freaked out as times passes.
01 January 1970
The broker Erich arrives with his prostitute at an apartment, already populated by three men. Abusive games, dancing and flirting occur.
01 January 1968
An experimental, bizarre and a very different shooting of an association between the sexes.
01 November 1964
Based on a Muehl Happening. The almost convulsive use of juxtaposition reappears here, but the captured gesture assumes a more erotic sensitivity, though the "action" itself was primarily a gradual destruction of the erotic.
09 June 1970
Free sexuality is an ethical, moral undertaking. The artist clears away taboos. What really shocks is being confronted with the facts.
01 January 1983
Loosely based on Kafka´s famous novel the film tells the story of a son who one day wakes up as a pig.
01 January 1983
The fight of the church against the sexuality of women by criminalizing them as witches reveals the insanity of manipulation in the perverted torture and liquidation of women who are suspected to be sexually attractive.
16 December 1986
A brief introduction of Adolf Hitler's rise to power. With the emphasis on Der Führer's ambition to clean Germany from harmful, undesirable and degenerate art and culture (Entartete Kunst).
01 January 1983
Emilie, a lonely old lady, is sucked into maelstrom of unreal pictures and into a sexual chase where real experience mixes with ecstatic and terrifying visions.
01 January 1985
Picassos early years in Paris were characterized by poverty, yet wild parties with artist-friends were common.
01 January 1968
‘Kunst & Revolution is a documentation on the famous action known as the “filthy uni mess”, which led to a jury court trial.
01 January 1983
Neonazis, women´s groups, sects, skinheads, punks, the Pope and different groups of the society produce an apocalyptic szenario in a disastrous football match.
01 January 1986
Everyone is engaged in intense physical training in the camps of the two enemies „Roter Schnee“ and „Schwarzer Oktober“.
01 January 1987
The melancholy emanating from Caspar David Friedrich painting lonely in the snow becomes grotesque when he turns into a blood-sucking dracula who knows how to escape the vigilance of the lord of the castle and get at his victims.
20 June 1967
In May 1965, Ernst Schmidt Jr. films the Otto Muehl performances Rumpsti Pumsti and Body Building. In this period Muehl conceives his actionist works almost exclusively for photographic and film documentation.
01 October 1969
Another try by the Viennese actionists around Otto Mühl, trying to shock the middle-class bourgeoisie with all sorts of explicit sexual and excretory processes.
01 January 1988
Christof Columbus succeeds to convince Queen Isabel of Spain to equip him to sail accross the Atlantic.
01 January 2001
A collection of shorts by Kurt Kren. Some are based on performaces by Viennese Actionists such as Günter Brus and Otto Mühl.
07 February 1967
Experimental film depicting military service in a grotesque way.
12 October 1999
A close look at the Austrian far-left Friedrichshof Commune which was set up in 1972 by artist Otto Muehl.
24 April 1970
Mondo-type shockumentary claiming to be an explicit manifesto of sex in Germany today.
31 March 1989
A comprehensive documentation of new art movements from 1945 to the present day. Beginning with the "Internationale Situationniste," "Cobra," "Spur," and "Wiener Gruppe" groups in Europe, and moving on to the international Happening and Fluxus movements, including the Viennese Actionists, and from 1970 onward to international Body and Performance Art, which also encompassed media art—film and video—the documentary presents film and photographic material from these art movements.
01 January 1967
I set my sights on the human body and realized things, were moving at last, during my first material action, I soiled a female body with mud, paint, rubbish and paste, and tied it up in old rags and ropes dipped in mud.
04 November 2012
Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family - these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl in the 1970's.
01 January 1969
A Materialaktion (an art performance/happening in which objects are used to create an art piece) by Viennese Aktionist Otto Muehl.
26 October 2009
In the commune of the Viennese action-ism-artist Otto Muehl the children should remain 'unspoilt from the nuclear family', in order to be brought up to a completely new human being.
08 April 1967
"1. 'Das Ohr'-a human ear, stuck through cardboard, is poured over with food-stuffs. 2. 'Dolorosa'-a naked female body is continuously sprayed with red paint.
01 January 1965
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.
