Peter Kubelka

Born: 1934-03-23

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.​


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

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Released: 2021-10-05

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American...

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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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Released: 2013-11-23

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

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Released: 1996-08-30

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Birth of a Nation

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Released: 1997-08-06

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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Cinématon

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Released: 1978-12-20

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the...

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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

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Released: 1986-02-22

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community...

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365 Day Project

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Released: 2007-12-31

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in...

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Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

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Released: 2011-07-24

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking...

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23rd Psalm Branch: Part II

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Released: 1967-01-27

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Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years

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Released: 2020-05-20

This historical and analytical documentary draws attention to the background of the roots of...

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Tapes

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Released: 2020-09-14

The tapes in the program consist of some of Mekas’ earliest cassettes from the 1990s not long...

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Four Shadows

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Released: 1978-10-03

Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all...

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EXPRMNTL

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Released: 2016-10-08

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice...

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Home Movies 1971-81

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Released: 1985-01-01

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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What Is Happening? Art in the Life of Gertie Fröhlich

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Released: 2024-09-20

n 2018, director Marieli Fröhlich initiated a documentary about her mother, the artist Gertie...

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Fragments of Kubelka

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Released: 2012-01-29

This epic documentary subtly introduces the complex worldview of iconic filmmaker and...

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Restoring 'Entuziazm'

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Released: 2005-09-24

A documentary on the restoration of Dziga Vertov's Entuziazm: Simfoniya Donbassa (1931).

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