Peter Kubelka
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.
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| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.0609 |
| Birthday | 1934-03-23 |
| Place of Birth | Wien, Austria |
| Also Known As |
2020
Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years
5.2/2
This historical and analytical documentary draws attention to the background of the roots of "New Austrian Cinema" and presents Austria as a film coun...
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Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years
2005
Restoring 'Entuziazm'
0/0
A documentary on the restoration of Dziga Vertov's Entuziazm: Simfoniya Donbassa (1931).
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Restoring 'Entuziazm'
2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
6.8/12
Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up a...
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Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
1985
Home Movies 1971-81
0/0
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
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Home Movies 1971-81
1978
Four Shadows
7/2
Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all combinations of the sound sections with each of the image sectio...
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Four Shadows
2007
365 Day Project
10/1
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for...
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365 Day Project
1972
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
7.102/44
Jonas Mekas weaves an elegiac diary film from his 1971–72 return to Lithuania, chronicling a visit to his birthplace of Semeniškiai after decades in e...
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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
2000
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
7.636/81
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
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As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
8.4/10
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
2006
Notes on Marie Menken
5.4/5
A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.
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Notes on Marie Menken
1997
Birth of a Nation
7/4
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast...
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Birth of a Nation
1967
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
5.692/13
The second part: Brakhage’s layering of images spends less time with images of war, and begins filtering in scenes of Vienna and his home in Colorado....
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23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
2012
Fragments of Kubelka
5/3
This epic documentary subtly introduces the complex worldview of iconic filmmaker and theoretician Peter Kubelka (born 1934, Vienna). While Kubelka’s...
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Fragments of Kubelka
1993
Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress
0/0
An historic event: Peter Kubelka gives a lecture at the Library of Congress.
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Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress
1978
Cinématon
4.857/7
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Cinématon
2005
Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch
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A casual, personal portrait of Hermann Nitsch, made with footage I took over the many years of our friendship. Footage includes early performances in...
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Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch
1979
Paradise Not Yet Lost
10/1
The film is arranged in six chronologically-ordered parts, each filmed in a different location during Oona's third year.
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Paradise Not Yet Lost
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
7.2/30
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends,...
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
2020
Tapes
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The tapes in the program consist of some of Mekas’ earliest cassettes from the 1990s not long after he first began working with video as well as more...
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Tapes
1984
Cinématon XXX
0/1
Reel 30 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
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Cinématon XXX
2024
What Is Happening? Art in the Life of Gertie Fröhlich
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What Is Happening? Art in the Life of Gertie Fröhlich
2016
EXPRMNTL
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Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second ‘World Fest...
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EXPRMNTL
1983
Cinématon n°295 : Peter Kubelka
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Portrait of Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka, shot in Vienna (Austria) on June 23, 1983 at 1:00 PM.
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Cinématon n°295 : Peter Kubelka
2011
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
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A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.
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