Short film
Das Happening
1969 · 1 min
A fleeting, static art-provocation that asks you to study bodies like statues and puzzle over what just happened.
- Directed by
- Ernst Schmidt Jr.
- Overview
- Once again, the title is to be taken entirely literally. It's happening – for about two seconds: a man and a woman (Günter and presumably Anna Brus) in the position of coitus a tergo in shallow water in front of reeds. Their athletic bodies are painted white (in the typical Brus action style); they hardly move, and look like classical statues. Or is what is happening rather a sequence that takes up, for an even shorter amount of time in this super-short film, its foreground? What happens is this: a naked man walks through the picture, cigarette in hand, bent over, as if...
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Art, sexuality, identity
- Content
- Strong sexual content. No violence, gore or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Ernst Schmidt Jr.