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Peter Kubelka

Peter Kubelka

Director · Born 1934-03-23 · Wien, Austria

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Biography

Peter Kubelka (born 23 March 1934 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian experimental filmmaker, architect, musician, curator and lecturer. His films are primarily short experiments in linking seemingly disparate sound and images. He is best known for his 1966 avant-garde classic Unsere Afrikareise (Our Trip to Africa). Kubelka made 16mm films, mostly shorts, and is known for his 1960 film Arnulf Rainer, a "flicker film" which alternates black and clear film that is projected to create a "flicker" effect. Kubelka also designed the Anthology Film Archives custom film screening space in the 1970s in New York. The theater had highly raked (tiered) seating with a cowel over each seat and visual barriers between each seat so that the audience member was totally isolated visually from other patrons. The theater was painted black and the seating was covered in black velvet. The only light in the room between film showings came from a spotlight aimed at the screen, thus ensuring that the only light in the room came from the screen. The design is illustrative of the purist aesthetic of the Avant Garde film movement of that era. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Kubelka, licen…

Directed

  1. Schwechater (1958) — Director
  2. Arnulf Rainer (1960) — Director
  3. Adebar (1958) — Director
  4. Our Trip to Africa (1966) — Director
  5. Mosaic in Trust (1955) — Director
  6. Pause! (1977) — Director
  7. Poetry and Truth (2004) — Director
  8. Monument Film (2012) — Director
  9. Antiphon (2012) — Director
  10. Film als Ereignis, Film als Sprache, Denken als Film (2011) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) — Self
  2. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) — Self
  3. Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) — Self
  4. 23rd Psalm Branch: Part II (1967) — Himself
  5. Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011) — Himself
  6. He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986) — Self (archive footage)
  7. Cinématon (1978) — N°295
  8. Notes on Marie Menken (2006) — Self
  9. Birth of a Nation (1997) — Self
  10. Fragments of Kubelka (2012) — Himself
  11. Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years (2020) — Himself
  12. Four Shadows (1978)
  13. 365 Day Project (2007) — Self
  14. Paradise Not Yet Lost (1979) — Himself
  15. Cinématon XXX (1984) — N°295
  16. Restoring 'Entuziazm' (2005) — Self
  17. Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
  18. Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress (1993)
  19. Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch (2005) — himself
  20. Tapes (2020)
  21. What Is Happening? Art in the Life of Gertie Fröhlich (2024) — Self
  22. EXPRMNTL (2016) — himself
  23. Cinématon n°295 : Peter Kubelka (1983) — self
  24. Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman (2011)