With 625 this idea is taken further still. The subject matter is television static, the title referring to the number of lines found on a PAL or SECAM set. Essentially the film sets up a conflict between the two mediums – the grain, flicker and occasional scratches of 16mm versus the video image. Especially pronounced is the competition between the frame rate of the former and ...
Kren took some scenes from a number of movies by filming directly from the screen without looking through the camera's view-finder. He inserted the missing sexual climax, by taking material left-over from (his documentation of) Mühl's Libi-Aktion. (Hans Scheugl: "Die Filme. Eine kommentierte Filmographie," in: (ed.) Scheugl Ex Underground Kurt Kren. Seine Filme, Vienna 1996)