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Peter Kubelka
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 i…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
- 2024
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2020
Tapes
Movie
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2020
Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years
Movie Himself
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2016
EXPRMNTL
Movie himself
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2012
Fragments of Kubelka
Movie Himself
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2012
Monument Film
Movie Director
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2012
Antiphon
Movie Director
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2011
Film als Ereignis, Film als Sprache, Denken als Film
Movie Director
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2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Movie Himself
- 2011
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2007
365 Day Project
Movie Self
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2006
Notes on Marie Menken
Movie Self
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2005
Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch
Movie himself
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2005
Restoring 'Entuziazm'
Movie Self
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2004
Poetry and Truth
Movie Director
- 2000
More credits
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1997
Birth of a Nation
Movie Self
- 1993
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1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Movie
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1984
Cinématon XXX
Movie N°295
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1983
Cinématon n°295 : Peter Kubelka
Movie self
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1979
Paradise Not Yet Lost
Movie Himself
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1978
Cinématon
Movie N°295
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1978
Four Shadows
Movie
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1977
Pause!
Movie Director
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1972
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
Movie Self
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1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Movie Self
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1967
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
Movie Himself
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1966
Our Trip to Africa
Movie Director
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1960
Arnulf Rainer
Movie Director
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1958
Adebar
Movie Director
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1958
Schwechater
Movie Director
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1955
Mosaic in Trust
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