1065 SelfMutilation

Krens 1065 Selfmutilation is developed from a Gunter Brus action What the film emphasizes is the surrealistic drama of symbolic selfdestruction 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 selfoperation Stephen Dwoskin