Peter Kubelka
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 23, 1934
- 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.
Filmography
What Is Happening? Art in the Life of Gertie Fröhlich 2024
as Self
Tapes 2020
Actor
Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years 2020
as Himself
EXPRMNTL 2016
as himself
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man 2012
as Self
Fragments of Kubelka 2012
as Himself
Monument Film 2012
Director
- Antiphon
Antiphon 2012
Director
My Paris Movie 2011
Actor
Film als Ereignis, Film als Sprache, Denken als Film 2011
Director
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film 2011
as Himself
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman 2011
Actor
365 Day Project 2007
as Self
- Notes on Marie Menken
Notes on Marie Menken 2006
as Self
- Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch
Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch 2005
as himself
Restoring 'Entuziazm' 2005
as Self
Poetry and Truth 2004
Director
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000
as Self
Birth of a Nation 1997
as Self
- Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress
Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress 1993
Actor
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life 1986
as Self (archive footage)
Home Movies 1971-81 1985
Actor
- Cinématon XXX
Cinématon XXX 1984
as N°295
Cinématon n°295 : Peter Kubelka 1983
as self
- Paradise Not Yet Lost
Paradise Not Yet Lost 1979
as Himself
Cinématon 1978
as N°295
Four Shadows 1978
Actor
Pause! 1977
Director, Editor
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania 1972
as Self
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches 1968
as Self
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II 1967
as Himself
Our Trip to Africa 1966
Director, Editor
Arnulf Rainer 1960
Director
Adebar 1958
Director
Schwechater 1958
Director
Mosaic in Trust 1955
Editor, Director, Writer
Credits from TMDB.