Das Happening.

Once again, the title is to be taken entirely literally. It's happening – for about two seconds: a man and a woman (Günter and presumably Anna Brus) in the position of coitus a tergo in shallow water in front of reeds. Their athletic bodies are painted white (in the typical Brus action style); they hardly move, and look like classical statues. Or is what is happening rather a sequence that takes up, for an even shorter amount of time in this super-short film, its foreground? What happens is this: a naked man walks through the picture, cigarette in hand, bent over, as if...

Directed by Ernst Schmidt Jr.