Peter Kubelka
Born: 1934-03-23 in Wien, Austria
Known For: Directing
Biography
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
2020
- Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years as Himself
- Tapes
2016
- EXPRMNTL as himself
2012
- Fragments of Kubelka as Himself
- Antiphon ... (Director)
- Monument Film ... (Director)
2011
2007
- 365 Day Project as Self
2006
- Notes on Marie Menken as Self
2005
- Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch as himself
- Restoring 'Entuziazm' as Self
2004
- Poetry and Truth ... (Director)
1997
- Birth of a Nation as Self
1986
- He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life as Self (archive footage)
1985
1984
- Cinématon XXX as N°295
1983
- Cinématon n°295 : Peter Kubelka as self
1979
- Paradise Not Yet Lost as Himself
1978
- Cinématon as N°295
- Four Shadows
1977
- Pause! ... (Director)
1972
1968
- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches as Self
1967
- 23rd Psalm Branch: Part II as Himself
1966
- Our Trip to Africa ... (Director)
1960
- Arnulf Rainer ... (Director)
1958
- Schwechater ... (Director)
- Adebar ... (Director)
1955
- Mosaic in Trust ... (Editor)