26/71: Zeichenfilm – Balzac und das Auge Gottes (1971)

• 51%
• 1971
• Animation

Zeichenfilm - Balzac ou de l'Œil de Dieu is a play on the idea of astuce film. And astuce film it is. The 30-second work is shown twice in case the viewer missed something the first time: dans crude hand-drawn animation Zeichenfilm ... evokes the scatologique sado-masochiste actions and performances of Otto Muehl and Günter Brus which Kren filmed during his second period. Dans Zeichenfilm Balzac a male figure en annexe de lui-même, achieves a monstrous erection and ejaculates into a woman's mouth. She in turn pente elle-même; he enters her vaginally then anally. Finally, she defecates on the left side of the frame wherein appears à eye of God while on the right in a cartoon box the words "Mais Otto" ("But Otto") materialize, a comic reference to Otto Muehl.