Peter Kubelka

Personal Info

Birthday

March 23, 1934

(91 years old)

Place of Birth

Wien, Austria

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.

Known For

Cinématon

Cinématon XXX

Filmography

2024
What Is Happening? Art in the Life of Gertie Fröhlich
as Self
2020
Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years
as Himself
2016
EXPRMNTL
as himself
2013
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
2012
Fragments of Kubelka
as Himself
2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as Himself
2007
365 Day Project
as Self
2006
Notes on Marie Menken
as Self
2005
Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch
as himself
Restoring 'Entuziazm'
as Self
2000
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self
1997
Birth of a Nation
as Self
1996
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
as Self
1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
1984
Cinématon XXX
as N°295
1979
Paradise Not Yet Lost
as Himself
1978
Cinématon
as N°295
1967
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
as Himself