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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Peter Kubelka Biography / Wiki
| Name | Peter Kubelka |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Wien, Austria |
| Date of Birth | March 23, 1934 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 89 |
| Deathday |
Peter Kubelka Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| 23rd Psalm Branch: Part II | Himself | 1967-02-04 | 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 Colorad… |
| Fragments of Kubelka | Himself | 2012-01-29 | This epic documentary subtly introduces the complex worldview of iconic filmmaker and theoretician Peter Kubelka (born 1934, Vienna). While Kubelka’… |
| Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress | 1993-01-01 | An historic event: Peter Kubelka gives a lecture at the Library of Congress…. | |
| Paradise Not Yet Lost | Himself | 1979-07-03 | The film is arranged in six chronologically-ordered parts, each filmed in a different location during Oona’s third year…. |
| Restoring ‘Entuziazm’ | Self | 2005-09-24 | A documentary on the restoration of Dziga Vertov’s Entuziazm: Simfoniya Donbassa (1931)…. |
| Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania | Himself | 1972-08-02 | A 1971–72 documentary film by Jonas Mekas. It revolves around Mekas’ trip back to SemeniÅ¡kiai, the village of his birth…. |
| Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch | himself | 2005-12-31 | A casual, personal portrait of Hermann Nitsch, made with footage I took over the many years of our friendship. Footage includes early performances in … |
| Tapes | 2020-09-14 | 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 mor… | |
| Notes on Marie Menken | Himself | 2006-04-20 | A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken…. |
| Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film | Himself | 2011-07-24 | 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… |
| Cinématon XXX | N°295 | 1984-04-04 | Reel 30 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series…. |
| As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty | Self | 2000-11-05 | A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas “purely … |
| Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years | Himself | 2020-05-20 | This historical and analytical documentary draws attention to the background of the roots of “New Austrian Cinema” and presents Austria as a film coun… |
| He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life | Self | 1986-02-22 | A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas…. |
| Birth of a Nation | Self | 1997-08-06 | Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades…. |
| Diaries, Notes, and Sketches | Self | 1969-12-01 | An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s…. |
| Cinématon | N°295 | 1978-12-20 | Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36… |
Peter Kubelka Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Pause! | Director | 1977-03-29 | Short film by Peter Kubelka. Arnulf Rainer contorts his mind and body before the camera…. |
| Our Trip to Africa | Director | 1966-10-14 | Originally commissioned by an Austrian couple in 1961 to photograph a travel diary documenting their wild game hunt, Kubelka shot three hours of film … |
| Arnulf Rainer | Director | 1960-01-01 | An experimental film, the last in Peter Kubelka’s trilogy of “metric filmsâ€. Each frame of Arnulf Rainer is composed of darkness or light and sile… |
| Schwechater | Director | 1958-01-01 | In 1957, Peter Kubelka was hired to make a short commercial for Schwechater beer. The beer company undoubtedly thought they were commissioning a film … |
| Adebar | Director | 1957-01-01 | Adebar is the first of Peter Kubelka’s ‘metric films’, in which every element of the composition is precisely ordered and in relation to the gestalt. … |
| Antiphon | Director | 2012-01-01 | Antiphon is constituted by the same 4 basic elements of cinema, light and darkness, sound and silence, as is my film Arnulf Rainer but it has the oppo… |
| Mosaic in Trust | Director | 1955-12-09 | In his first film work, Kubelka evokes episodes of flirtation, courtship, and break-ups, played out against a series of non-corresponding audio excerp… |
| Poetry and Truth | Director | 2003-01-01 | Discarded takes from advertising films are presented almost untouched, as documents that unwittingly offer valuable and humorous insights into the hum… |
| Monument Film | Director | 2012-01-01 | Arnulf Rainer—every which way but loose…. |
| Film als Ereignis, Film als Sprache, Denken als Film | Director | 2011-10-07 | … |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Mosaic in Trust | Writer | 1955-12-09 | In his first film work, Kubelka evokes episodes of flirtation, courtship, and break-ups, played out against a series of non-corresponding audio excerp… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Our Trip to Africa | Editor | 1966-10-14 | Originally commissioned by an Austrian couple in 1961 to photograph a travel diary documenting their wild game hunt, Kubelka shot three hours of film … |
| Mosaic in Trust | Editor | 1955-12-09 | In his first film work, Kubelka evokes episodes of flirtation, courtship, and break-ups, played out against a series of non-corresponding audio excerp… |
| Pause! | Editor | 1977-03-29 | Short film by Peter Kubelka. Arnulf Rainer contorts his mind and body before the camera…. |
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