44/85 Foot'-Age Shoot'-Out

44/85 Foot'-Age Shoot'-Out

Synopsis

The Battle of the Film Bands was a film showing hosted by the Cinematheque in San Francisco and a group of filmmakers called No Cinema. It was designed as a shoot-out between the organizers' different concepts for putting together a programme. The filmmaker Marian Wallace sent Kren a film reel with the request to make a film fast: "Better hurry. Make a movie!" The presentation would be in two weeks.

Kurt Kren: I was angry because I am not used to making films on the spot: And definitely not when I’m not in the mood to make a film. I felt somewhat violated. Shortly before the eleventh hour I left and traced the silhouette of Houston and simply wiped it out. I stuck the film in an express envelope and sent it off.