Peter Kubelka
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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Known For
Cinématon
1978
365 Day Project
2007
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
Birth of a Nation
1997
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972
EXPRMNTL
2016
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years
2020
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Four Shadows
1978
Notes on Marie Menken
2006
Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress
1993
Tapes
2020