10/65: Self-Mutilation Poster

10/65: Self-Mutilation

Not Rated Drama Horror

Starring: Günter Brus

Writer: N/A

Release Date:
April 1, 1965
Ratings:
5.7 / 10
Director:
Kurt Kren
Companies:
N/A

Overview

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)