Otto Muehl

Becoming Otto (2010)

A portrait of the Austrian avant-garde artist Otto Mühl/Muehl (1925-2013), whose work combined sex, violence, gastronomy and bodily effluence with unbridled abandon. ...

The Children of the Commune (2009)

In the commune of the Viennese action-ism-artist Otto Muehl the children should remain 'unspoilt from the nuclear family', in order to be brought up to a completely new human being. Setting out as a free collective in the early 70ies, soon the social exper ...

Columbus (1988)

Christof Columbus succeeds to convince Queen Isabel of Spain to equip him to sail accross the Atlantic. This and what happens to the Spaniards when they meet the indigenous people is shown in this film shot on the island of La Gomera. ...

Back to Fucking Cambridge (1987)

About a group of graduates from Cambridge University who go back to their college to visit a friend who has stayed on there. Otto Muehl founded a community of artists in Vienna in 1970 with the aim of exploring a completely free life practice. Since 1972, ...

Caspar David Friedrich (1987)

The melancholy emanating from Caspar David Friedrich painting lonely in the snow becomes grotesque when he turns into a blood-sucking dracula who knows how to escape the vigilance of the lord of the castle and get at his victims. ...

Der Führer kommt (1986)

A brief introduction of Adolf Hitler's rise to power. With the emphasis on Der Führer's ambition to clean Germany from harmful, undesirable and degenerate art and culture (Entartete Kunst). Presented by children and teenagers from the Friedrichhofer Commu ...

Xidai: A Film from the Far East (1986)

Everyone is engaged in intense physical training in the camps of the two enemies „Roter Schnee" and „Schwarzer Oktober". When a spy is uncovered full-scale fighting breaks out. ...

The Painter Pablo Picasso (1985)

Picassos early years in Paris were characterized by poverty, yet wild parties with artist-friends were common. His life –so full of adventures with women- ends in the staid happiness of an ageing couple. ...

Dschugaswili from Georgia (1984)

Forced collectivism, famines, errors and mistakes mark Stalin´s ruthless rise to dictorial power and only increase his madness until he even declares a chicken to be an English spy that should be liquidated. ...

Die Verwandlung (1983)

Loosely based on Kafka´s famous novel the film tells the story of a son who one day wakes up as a pig... ...

Inferno (1983)

Neonazis, women´s groups, sects, skinheads, punks, the Pope and different groups of the society produce an apocalyptic szenario in a disastrous football match. ...

On The Road with Emilie (1983)

Emilie, a lonely old lady, is sucked into maelstrom of unreal pictures and into a sexual chase where real experience mixes with ecstatic and terrifying visions. ...

Hexenjagd (1983)

The fight of the church against the sexuality of women by criminalizing them as witches reveals the insanity of manipulation in the perverted torture and liquidation of women who are suspected to be sexually attractive. ...

The Lascivious Wotan (1971)

A subversive and experimental film by Otto Muehl. ...

Aktion Zürich (1971)

Action by Otto Muehl. ...

Psychotic Party (1970)

Free sexuality is an ethical, moral undertaking. The artist clears away taboos. What really shocks is being confronted with the facts. ...

Investmentfonds oder: Erich kommt (1970)

The broker Erich arrives with his prostitute at an apartment, already populated by three men. Abusive games, dancing and flirting occur. Things eventually degenerates completely. ...

SS and Yellow Star (1970)

Actionist film of Otto Muehl performance. ...

Scheiss-Kerl (1969)

Another try by the Viennese actionists around Otto Mühl, trying to shock the middle-class bourgeoisie with all sorts of explicit sexual and excretory processes. ...

Stille Nacht (1969)

A Materialaktion (an art performance/happening in which objects are used to create an art piece) by Viennese Aktionist Otto Muehl. The setting is a solemn Christmas celebration. ...

Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten (1968)

Four men, one woman and a cat in a room. The men drink and discuss. Things get a bit violent. The masochist acts out his desires by himself. Random fuss and sex occurs. Suddenly the woman gets her baby to change diapers. Odd things around the child. The ca ...

Satisfaction (1968)

An experimental, bizarre and a very different shooting of an association between the sexes. ...

Libi 68 (1968)

Libi (1968), whose title is perhaps a punning conflation of "love" ("liebe" in German) and "libido," begins with an onscreen title: "DIESER FILM ZEIGT WIE DAS LEBEN EBEN SO IST" ("This film shows how life actually is"). We are treated to a blowjob, an umbr ...

Zock Exercises (1967)

"1. 'Das Ohr'-a human ear, stuck through cardboard, is poured over with food-stuffs. 2. 'Dolorosa'-a naked female body is continuously sprayed with red paint. 3. 'Kardinal'- a face is continuously slapped with food and paint. 4. 'Michaelangelo'- three nake ...

Wehrertüchtigung (1967)

Experimental film depicting military service in a grotesque way. ...

Psycho-motorische Geräuschaktion (1967)

Four young men affected by psychological motorcar reactions and effluents that get more excited, crazy and freaked out as times passes. ...

Kardinal (1967)

I set my sights on the human body and realized things, were moving at last, during my first material action, I soiled a female body with mud, paint, rubbish and paste, and tied it up in old rags and ropes dipped in mud. ...

My Fathers, My Mother and Me (2012)

Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family - these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl in the 1970's. Because of these principles Paul-Julien R ...

Becoming Otto (2010)

A portrait of the Austrian avant-garde artist Otto Mühl/Muehl (1925-2013), whose work combined sex, violence, gastronomy and bodily effluence with unbridled abandon. ...

The Children of the Commune (2009)

In the commune of the Viennese action-ism-artist Otto Muehl the children should remain 'unspoilt from the nuclear family', in order to be brought up to a completely new human being. Setting out as a free collective in the early 70ies, soon the social exper ...

Slaves in Paradise (1999)

A close look at the Austrian far-left Friedrichshof Commune which was set up in 1972 by artist Otto Muehl. It was dissolved in 1990 when Muehl was convicted of the abuse of teenagers who lived in the commune. ...

Die Tage der Kommune (1997)

Back to Fucking Cambridge (1987)

About a group of graduates from Cambridge University who go back to their college to visit a friend who has stayed on there. Otto Muehl founded a community of artists in Vienna in 1970 with the aim of exploring a completely free life practice. Since 1972, ...

Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years. ...

ViennaFilm 1896-1976 (1977)

This film is a kind of anthology about Vienna, from the invention of film to the present day. The aim is to break down the usual clichéd "image of Vienna" such as that found in the traditional "Vienna Film" by juxtaposing documentary footage, newly shot m ...

Sweet Movie (1974)

The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery. ...

Psychotic Party (1970)

Free sexuality is an ethical, moral undertaking. The artist clears away taboos. What really shocks is being confronted with the facts. ...

Sex Freedom in Germany (1970)

Mondo-type shockumentary claiming to be an explicit manifesto of sex in Germany today. ...

Otto Muehl's Manopsychotic Ballet (1970)

The last important action by Muehl before he retired from the art world after a decade of painting and performance and focused on his commune as an alternative way of living. It marked the end of a very prolific phase of actions that followed the legendary ...

Investmentfonds oder: Erich kommt (1970)

The broker Erich arrives with his prostitute at an apartment, already populated by three men. Abusive games, dancing and flirting occur. Things eventually degenerates completely. ...

Stille Nacht (1969)

A Materialaktion (an art performance/happening in which objects are used to create an art piece) by Viennese Aktionist Otto Muehl. The setting is a solemn Christmas celebration. ...

Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten (1968)

Four men, one woman and a cat in a room. The men drink and discuss. Things get a bit violent. The masochist acts out his desires by himself. Random fuss and sex occurs. Suddenly the woman gets her baby to change diapers. Odd things around the child. The ca ...

Shameless (1968)

After the violent death of a prostitute, her father tries to find the people who are responsible for the fall of the young woman. ...

Satisfaction (1968)

An experimental, bizarre and a very different shooting of an association between the sexes. ...

Kunst & Revolution (1968)

'Kunst & Revolution is a documentation on the famous action known as the "filthy uni mess", which led to a jury court trial. I only had a few metres of film with me and they were quickly spent, but still the film gives one a rough impression of the events. ...

Bodybuilding (1967)

In May 1965, Ernst Schmidt Jr. films the Otto Muehl performances Rumpsti Pumsti and Body Building. In this period Muehl conceives his actionist works almost exclusively for photographic and film documentation. The necessity of a spontaneous confrontation w ...

Psycho-motorische Geräuschaktion (1967)

Four young men affected by psychological motorcar reactions and effluents that get more excited, crazy and freaked out as times passes. ...

10c/65: Brus Wishes You a Merry Christmas (1965)

A kind of home movie made in Brus' apartment. Brus' Christmas wishes can be seen on a poster which he painted and which he holds for a short time in front of the camera. ...

7/64: Leda and the Swan (1964)

Based on a Muehl Happening. The almost convulsive use of juxtaposition reappears here, but the captured gesture assumes a more erotic sensitivity, though the "action" itself was primarily a gradual destruction of the erotic. ...

6/64: Mom and Dad (An Otto Mühl Happening) (1964)

In the first action he filmed, 6/64 Mama und Papa, Kren's editing leads to many interlocking continuous shots; central takes recur like a leitmotif, circular motion and networking can be observed throughout the film. Kren painstakingly weaves the fury in f ...