Kubelka Films
Combined programme
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IFFR 2012
Peter Kubelka (1934) is an artist, anthropologist, cook and teacher. During the five decades he has been active as a filmmaker, he has produced a grand total of 62 minutes of film, in which he explores the essential qualities of cinema. The IFFR will be screening 39 minutes of film and Kubelka will be present to explain his work.
In this combined programme
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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… -
Pause!
Arnulf Rainer, member of the Wiener Aktionists, is an artist of unique originality and intensity. His ‘face art’ constitutes the unique imagery of the -
Unsere Afrikareise
Under the guise of a conventional amateur travelogue portraying a safari, Kubelka confronts us with a cunning cultural analysis of the hunt for images -
Mosaik im Vertrauen
In his first film work, Kubelka evokes episodes of flirtation, courtship, and break-ups, played out against a series of non-corresponding audio excerp -
Dichtung und Wahrheit
Discarded takes from advertising films are presented almost untouched, as documents that unwittingly offer valuable and humorous insights into the hum -
Schwechater
Supposedly shot as a commercial for an Austrian beer, Kubelka drastically edited the material into a hermetic yet fascinating cinema object. -
Adebar
Kubelka strips the images down to their black-and-white essentials, to create the ultimate abstract film choreography.