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.
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Filmography
all 30
Movies 29
self 16
Director 9
TV Shows 1
Tapes (2020)
Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years (2020)
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012)
Fragments of Kubelka (2012)
Antiphon (2012)
Monument Film (2012)
Film als Ereignis, Film als Sprache, Denken als Film (2011)
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011)
Notes on Marie Menken (2006)
Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch (2005)
Restoring 'Entuziazm' (2005)
Poetry and Truth (2003)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
Birth of a Nation (1997)
Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress (1993)
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)
Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
Cinématon XXX (1984)
Paradise Not Yet Lost (1979)
Cinématon (1978)
Pause! (1977)
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968)
Apropos Film (1967)
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II (1967)
Our Trip to Africa (1966)
Arnulf Rainer (1960)
Schwechater (1958)
Adebar (1957)
Mosaic in Trust (1955)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1934-03-23 (90 years old)
Birth PlaceVienna, Austria
SiblingsSusanna Kubelka
CitizenshipsAustria
AwardsEckart Witzigmann Prize, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
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