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Peter Kubelka

Peter Kubelka

Born: 1934-03-23 • 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.

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Filmography
What Is Happening? Art in the Life of Gertie Fröhlich poster
What Is Happening? Art in the Life of Gertie Fröhlich
2024 • Self
Tapes poster
Tapes
2020
Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years poster
Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years
2020 • Himself
EXPRMNTL poster
EXPRMNTL
2016 • himself
Fragments of Kubelka poster
Fragments of Kubelka
2012 • Himself
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film poster
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 • Himself
365 Day Project poster
365 Day Project
2007 • Self
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Notes on Marie Menken
2006 • Self
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Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch
2005 • himself
Restoring 'Entuziazm' poster
Restoring 'Entuziazm'
2005 • Self
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty poster
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000 • Self
Birth of a Nation poster
Birth of a Nation
1997 • Self
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Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress
1993
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life poster
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986 • Self (archive footage)
Home Movies 1971-81 poster
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
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Cinématon XXX
1984 • N°295
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Cinématon n°295 : Peter Kubelka
1983 • self
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Paradise Not Yet Lost
1979 • Himself
Cinématon poster
Cinématon
1978 • N°295
Four Shadows poster
Four Shadows
1978
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania poster
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972 • Self
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches poster
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 • Self
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II poster
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
1967 • Himself