Peter Kubelka
Born 1934 (age 92) · Wien, Austria
Appears in 34 titles

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

Schwechater
4.9
Schwechater
1958
Director
Arnulf Rainer
4.5
Arnulf Rainer
1960
Director
Adebar
4.7
Adebar
1958
Director
Our Trip to Africa
5.9
Our Trip to Africa
1966
Director
Mosaic in Trust
5.3
Mosaic in Trust
1955
Director
Pause!
5.0
Pause!
1977
Director
Poetry and Truth
7.0
Poetry and Truth
2004
Director
Monument Film
10.0
Monument Film
2012
Director
Antiphon
2012
Director