Otto Muehl Movies

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

Libi (1968), whose title is perhaps a punning conflation of “love” (“liebe” in German) and “libido,” begins with...

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

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

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

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

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

In May 1965, Ernst Schmidt Jr. films the Otto Muehl performances Rumpsti Pumsti and Body Building. In this period Muehl conceives his actionist works...

Experimental film depicting military service in a grotesque way.

‘Kunst & Revolution is a documentation on the famous action known as the “filthy uni mess”, which led to a jury court trial. I only...

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...

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

Action by Otto Muehl.

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...

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...

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,...

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...

The fight of the church against the sexuality of women by criminalizing them as witches reveals the insanity of manipulation in the perverted torture...

A performance in which Gunter Brus writhed on a floor covered in a viscous white paint. Though Brus did not harm himself, violence and damage are...

The first six images of Wiener Spaziergang (Viennese Stroll, 1965), for example, are ghoulishly amusing. Painted white, with a jagged slash painted...