20/68 SCHATZI

In 1968 Kren made SCHATZI, which explores the irony of a formal image device, the interplay of positive and negative superimposition, involving the viewer in the material interaction only to reveal finally that the picture is of an army officer surveying a field of corpses. In many respects, Kren's work continues to express the tension between the existential and the structural. His formal inclinations and systematic structures never become formalist or formula unrelated to the existential aspect of image. (Malcolm LE GRICE, ABSTRACT FILM AND BEYOND, 1977)