Peter Kubelka
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Peter Kubelka is an Austria
n experimental
filmmaker. 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 "flicker film" which alternates black and clear film that is projected to create a "flicker" effect (title is ARNUF RAINER). 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 insuring 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. His work is explicated well in P. Adams Sitney's book.
Peter Kubelka is the brother of the writer Susanna Kubelka
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Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n experimental
Experimental film
Experimental film or experimental cinema is a type of cinema. Experimental film is an artistic practice relieving both of visual arts and cinema. Its origins can be found in European avant-garde movements of the twenties. Experimental cinema has built its history through the texts of theoreticians...
filmmaker. 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 "flicker film" which alternates black and clear film that is projected to create a "flicker" effect (title is ARNUF RAINER). Kubelka also designed the Anthology Film Archives
Anthology Film Archives
__notoc__Anthology Film Archives is a film archive and theater located at 32 Second Avenue on the corner of East Second Street in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City devoted to the preservation and exhibition of experimental film. It is the only non-profit organization of its...
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 insuring 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. His work is explicated well in P. Adams Sitney's book.
Peter Kubelka is the brother of the writer Susanna Kubelka
Susanna Kubelka
Susanna Kubelka von Hermanitz is a German-speaking writer living in France.She was born in September 1942 in Linz . Having left high school she briefly worked as primary school teacher before graduating in English literature. In 1977 she took a PhD with a thesis on The way women were represented in...
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Selected filmography
- Mosaik Im Vertrauen (Mosaic in Confidence) (1955)
- Adebar (1957)
- Schwechater (1958)
- Arnulf Rainer (1960)
- Unsere Afrikareise (Our Trip to Africa) (1965)
- Pause! (1977)
- Dichtung und Wahrheit (Poetry and Truth) (2003)