Peter Kubelka
Actor
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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Filmography
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self 2000
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
as Self 1972
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self 1968
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as Himself 2011
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
as Himself 1967
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage) 1986
Cinématon
as N°295 1978
Notes on Marie Menken
as Self 2006
Birth of a Nation
as Self 1997
Fragments of Kubelka
as Himself 2012
Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years
as Himself 2020
Four Shadows
1978
365 Day Project
as Self 2007
Cinématon XXX
as N°295 1984
Restoring 'Entuziazm'
as Self 2005
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress
1993