
Peter Kubelka
Directing
Born: 1934-03-23 · Wien, Austria
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"
🎬 Movies (30)

What Is Happening? Art in the Life of Gertie Fröhlich
2024
Self

Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years
2020
Himself

Tapes
2020

EXPRMNTL
2016
himself

Fragments of Kubelka
2012
Himself
Antiphon
2012
Director

Monument Film
2012
Director

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
Himself

Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011

Film als Ereignis, Film als Sprache, Denken als Film
2011
Director

365 Day Project
2007
Self
Notes on Marie Menken
2006
Self

Restoring 'Entuziazm'
2005
Self
Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch
2005
himself

Poetry and Truth
2004
Director

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
Self

Birth of a Nation
1997
Self
Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress
1993

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
Self (archive footage)

Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Cinématon XXX
1984
N°295
Cinématon n°295 : Peter Kubelka
1983
self
Paradise Not Yet Lost
1979
Himself

Four Shadows
1978

Cinématon
1978
N°295

Pause!
1977
Director

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972
Self

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
Self

23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
1967
Himself

Our Trip to Africa
1966
Director