Only certain predetermined shot lenghts are used. The visual material in the film is combined according to certain rules and there is a consistent alternation of positive and negative. Originally commissioned as a commercial, Adebar became Kubelka’s first ‘metric’ film.
Also in this combined programme
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Dramolet (Stille Nacht I)
The first part from the four-part work Stille Nacht started as an ‘art break’ for MTV. -
Anémic cinéma
This characteristically dada film by Marcel Duchamp consists of a series of visual and verbal puns with nonsense phrases inscribed around rotating spi -
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Puppet animation. Far-reaching variations on an engraving by Fragonard (Le Verrou). Study of lonely creatures imprisoned in a calligraphic setting.
Film details
- Country of production
- Austria
- Year
- 1957
- Festival edition
- IFFR 1998
- Length
- 1'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
