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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Schwechater
Supposedly shot as a commercial for an Austrian beer, Kubelka drastically edited the material into a hermetic yet fascinating cinema object.
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Arnulf Rainer
This is a film composed entirely of solid black and solid white frames, strung together in lengths as long as 24 frames and as short as a single fr
Film details
- Country of production
- Austria
- Year
- 1957
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2002
- Length
- 1"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
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