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Our Trip to Africa (German: Unsere Afrikareise) is a 1966 Austrian avant-garde short film by Peter Kubelka, originally commissioned as a travel diary documenting a wild game hunt. Kubelka used intricate editing strategies to produce a work about anti-colonialism.Read More »
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A short film originally intended to be a commercial for Schwechater Beer, but along the way it morphed into something completely different.Read More »
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Arnulf Rainer’s images are the most ´reducedª of all — this is a film composed entirely of frames of solid black and solid white which Kubelka strings together in lengths as long as 24 seconds and as short as a single frame. When he alternates between single black and white frames, a rapid flicker effect is produced, which is as close as Kubelka can come to the somewhat more rapid flicker of motion-picture projection; during the long sections of darkness one waits in nervous anticipation for the flicker to return, without knowing precisely which form it will take. But Arnulf Rainer is not merely a study of film rhythm and flicker.Read More »
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Kubelkas achievement is that he has taken Soviet montage one step further. While Eisenstein used shots as his basic units and edited them together in a pattern to make meanings, Kubelka has gone back to the individual still frame as the essence of cinema. The fact that a projected film consists of 24 still images per second serves as the basis for his art.Read More »
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Peter Kubelka’s first film, “Mosaik im Vertrauen”, reuses images that the filmmaker did not shoot himself: the film is thus a found footage film that foreshadows films by Bruce Conner, Arthur Lipsett and others. The film partly contains newsreel material from a car race, and various scenes from feature films where meetings between people are in focus.Read More »
