- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- March 23, 1934
- Place of Birth
- Wien, Austria
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 r…
Filmography
movieWhat Is Happening? Art in the Life of Gertie Fröhlich
2024 · Self
movieTapes
2020
movieCinema Austria, the first 112 Years
2020 · Himself
movieEXPRMNTL
2016 · himself
movieFragments of Kubelka
2012 · Himself
Antiphon
2012 · Director
movieMonument Film
2012 · Director
movieFilm als Ereignis, Film als Sprache, Denken als Film
2011 · Director
movieFree Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 · Himself
movieCyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011
movie365 Day Project
2007 · Self
Notes on Marie Menken
2006 · Self
Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch
2005 · himself
movieRestoring 'Entuziazm'
2005 · Self
moviePoetry and Truth
2004 · Director
movieAs I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000 · Self
movieBirth of a Nation
1997 · Self
Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress
1993
movieHe Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986 · Self (archive footage)
movieHome Movies 1971-81
1985
Cinématon XXX
1984 · N°295
Cinématon n°295 : Peter Kubelka
1983 · self
Paradise Not Yet Lost
1979 · Himself
movieCinématon
1978 · N°295
movieFour Shadows
1978
moviePause!
1977 · Director, Editor
movieReminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972 · Self
movieDiaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 · Self
movie23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
1967 · Himself
movieOur Trip to Africa
1966 · Director, Editor
movieArnulf Rainer
1960 · Director
movieAdebar
1958 · Director
movieSchwechater
1958 · Director
movieMosaic in Trust
1955 · Editor, Director, Writer