2671 Zeichenfilm Balzac und das Auge Gottes

Zeichenfilm Balzac oder das Auge Gottes is a play on the idea of trick film And trick film it is The 30second work is shown twice in case the viewer missed something the first time in crude handdrawn animation Zeichenfilm evokes the scatological sadomasochistic actions and performances of Otto Muehl and Günter Brus which Kren filmed during his second period In Zeichenfilm Balzac a male figure hangs himself achieves a monstrous erection and ejaculates into a womans mouth She in turn hangs herself he enters her vaginally then anally Finally she defecates on the left side of the frame wherein appears an eye of God while on the right in a cartoon box the words Aber Otto But Otto materialize a comic reference to Otto Muehl