10/65: Self-Mutilation (1965)

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)

Released

1965-04-01

Genres

Drama, Horror

Runtime

5 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Kurt Kren

TMDB rating

5.9/10 from 21 votes