Short film
Wiener Spaziergang
1965 · 2 min
A brief, unsettling provocation that shifts from deadpan street-theatre absurdity to raw, corpselike self-violence, leaving a queasy, confrontational aftertaste.
- Directed by
- Günter Brus
- Starring
- Günter Brus
- Overview
- The first six images of Wiener Spaziergang (Viennese Stroll, 1965), for example, are ghoulishly amusing. Painted white, with a jagged slash painted through the middle of his body, Brus takes a walk through Vienna’s historical centre. He is documented walking past smart storefronts and tourist hotspots, is gawped at by fussy locals, and finally booked and firmly rebuked by a stern-faced police officer. The later images are much more troubling. Lying prone, corpselike, on a table surrounded by scalpels, Brus claws at his sludge-covered face and appears to stab himself in the thigh. He eventually falls and drags himself, agonized, across the floor.
- How it feels
- Absurd, eerie, dark and satirical. Brisk and demanding.
- About
- Art, identity, madness, violence
- Content
- Mild violence and gore. No sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Günter Brus
- Starring
- Günter Brus
