Directing
Peter Kubelka
EN, DE, XX, FR cinema · 36 credits
Born
23 March 1934 (age 92)
Birthplace
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.
Known for
Filmography
EXPRMNTL
as himself
Fragments of Kubelka
as Himself
Monument Film
Director
365 Day Project
as Self
Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch
2005
Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch
as himself
Poetry and Truth
Director
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
Cinématon
as N°295
Pause!
Director, Editor
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
as Himself
Our Trip to Africa
Director, Editor
Arnulf Rainer
Director
Adebar
Director
Schwechater
Director
Mosaic in Trust
Editor, Director, Writer