Peter Kubelka

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.

Known For: Directing

Born: Wien, Austria, 1934-03-23

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1967	23rd Psalm Branch: Part II	Himself	56
2	1978	Four Shadows		70
3	1978	Cinématon	N°295	43
4	1979	Paradise Not Yet Lost	Himself	0
5	1984	Cinématon XXX	N°295	0
6	1985	Home Movies 1971-81		0
7	1986	He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life	Self (archive footage)	82
8	1993	Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress		0
9	1996	Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania	Self	69
10	1997	Birth of a Nation	Self	63
11	2000	As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty	Self	76
12	2005	Restoring 'Entuziazm'	Self	0
13	2005	Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch	himself	0
14	2006	Notes on Marie Menken	Self	54
15	2007	365 Day Project	Self	100
16	2011	Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film	Himself	67
17	2012	Fragments of Kubelka	Himself	50
18	2013	Diaries, Notes, and Sketches	Self	75
19	2016	EXPRMNTL	himself	0
20	2020	Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years	Himself	52
21	2020	Tapes		0
22	2024	What Is Happening? Art in the Life of Gertie Fröhlich	Self	0

Peter Kubelka

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