Otto Muehl Movies

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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,...

Action by Otto Muehl.

About a group of graduates from Cambridge University who go back to their college to visit a friend who has stayed on there. Otto Muehl founded a...

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...

Everyone is engaged in intense physical training in the camps of the two enemies „Roter Schnee“ and „Schwarzer Oktober“. When...

Another try by the Viennese actionists around Otto Mühl, trying to shock the middle-class bourgeoisie with all sorts of explicit sexual and...

A collection of shorts made between 1964 & 1970 by the extreme avant-garde performance art group The Vienna Actionists. Including short films...

An experimental and bizarre shooting of an association between the sexes.

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...

Emilie, a lonely old lady, is sucked into maelstrom of unreal pictures and into a sexual chase where real experience mixes with ecstatic and...

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...

Based on a Muehl Happening. The almost convulsive use of juxtaposition reappears here, but the captured gesture assumes a more erotic sensitivity,...

Picassos early years in Paris were characterized by poverty, yet wild parties with artist-friends were common. His life –so full of adventures...

The melancholy emanating from Caspar David Friedrich painting lonely in the snow becomes grotesque when he turns into a blood-sucking dracula who...

A Materialaktion (an art performance/happening in which objects are used to create an art piece) by Viennese Aktionist Otto Muehl. The setting is a...

"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...