Peter Kubelka

Directing·Mar 23, 1934·Wien, Austria

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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.

Film	Credit
What Is Happening? Art in the Life of Gertie Fröhlich2024 · Self	Self
Tapes2020 · Actor	Actor
Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years2020 · Himself	Himself
EXPRMNTL2016 · himself	himself
Fragments of Kubelka2012 · Himself	Himself
AAntiphon2012 · Director	Director
Monument Film2012 · Director	Director
Film als Ereignis, Film als Sprache, Denken als Film2011 · Director	Director
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film2011 · Himself	Himself
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman2011 · Actor	Actor
365 Day Project2007 · Self	Self
NNotes on Marie Menken2006 · Self	Self
SScenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch2005 · himself	himself
Restoring 'Entuziazm'2005 · Self	Self
Poetry and Truth2004 · Director	Director
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty2000 · Self	Self
Birth of a Nation1997 · Self	Self
PPeter Kubelka at the Library of Congress1993 · Actor	Actor
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life1986 · Self (archive footage)	Self (archive footage)
Home Movies 1971-811985 · Actor	Actor
CCinématon XXX1984 · N°295	N°295
CCinématon n°295 : Peter Kubelka1983 · self	self
PParadise Not Yet Lost1979 · Himself	Himself
Cinématon1978 · N°295	N°295
Four Shadows1978 · Actor	Actor
Pause!1977 · Director	Director
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania1972 · Self	Self
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches1968 · Self	Self
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II1967 · Himself	Himself
Our Trip to Africa1966 · Director	Director
Arnulf Rainer1960 · Director	Director
Adebar1958 · Director	Director
Schwechater1958 · Director	Director
Mosaic in Trust1955 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer