2/60: 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test - Movie

2/60: 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test

Kurt Kren
Experimental : 4' / Mental Health, Identity, Politics

In 1935, Hungarian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Léopold Szondi created a personality test for "experimental diagnosis of human impulses" consisting of 48 photos. Choosing the two most attractive and the two least attractive images, determined if you were: a homosexual, a sadist, an epileptic, a hysteric, a catatonic, a paranoid, a depressive or a maniac. Cut according to a strictly serial sequence technique, in various frame sizes, the 48 portraits from the test are shown here in pre-specified lengths (between one and eight frames).

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Year: 1960

Country: Austria

Language: no dialogues

Subtitles: no subtitles

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Kurt Kren

Austria

Kurt Kren (Viena, Áustria, 1929) começou a fazer filmes em 1957. De orientação estrutural, Kern participou em diversos happenings marginais e fundou a Austria Filmmakers Cooperative, em 1968. Nos anos 70, participou no Festival de Cinema de Cannes, esteve envolvido no Dokumenta 6 de Kassel, e o London National Film Theatre e o MoMA de Nova Iorque dedicaram-lhe retrospetivas. Durante a década de 80, morou nos EUA onde apresentou palestras para universidades e escolas.

Filmography

Selected

1983 – 42/83: No Film (Experimental Short) 
1975 – 31/75: Asylum (Experimental Short) 

1971 – 26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes (Experimental Short) 

1967 – 15/67: TV (Experimental Short) 
1965 – 10/65: Self-Mutilation (Experimental Short) 
1964 – 6/64: Mom and Dad (an Otto Mühl Happening) (Experimental Short) 
1964 – 8/64: Ana – Action Brus (Experimental Short) 
1960 – 2/60: 48 Heads from the Szondi-Test (Experimental Short) 
1960 – 3/60: Trees in Autumn (Experimental Short) 

1957 – 1/57: Experiment with Synthetiuc Sound-Test (Experimental Short)