Peter Kubelka

Known for DirectingBorn 1934-03-23 (age 92)Wien, Austria

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, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Monument Film

365 Day Project

Paradise Not Yet Lost

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

Poetry and Truth

Birth of a Nation

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

Four Shadows

Our Trip to Africa

Notes on Marie Menken

Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years

23rd Psalm Branch: Part II

Fragments of Kubelka

Mosaic in Trust

Pause!

Cinématon

Schwechater

Adebar

Arnulf Rainer

What Is Happening? Art in the Life of Gertie Fröhlich

Tapes

EXPRMNTL

Antiphon

Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman

Film als Ereignis, Film als Sprache, Denken als Film

Restoring 'Entuziazm'

Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch

Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress

Home Movies 1971-81

Cinématon XXX

Cinématon n°295 : Peter Kubelka