Peter Kubelka – Unsere Afrikareise AKA Our Trip to Africa (1966)
Quote:
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.
[—]
Kubelka did not do any audio mixing on the film, so all of the sound on Our Trip to Africa was recorded live. He incorporated dialogue, music, and intermittent gunfire. He recorded live music as well as songs broadcast on the radio, with clips of contemporary pop songs, British dancehall music, Egyptian tango, and the score of Around the World in 80 Days. Kubelka’s editing was designed to create “synch events” in which image and sound are combined in unique ways. He cited Dziga Vertov and Luis Buñuel as predecessors in his use of juxtaposition in image and sound.
[—]
The editing strategies of Our Trip to Africa form a rendering of colonial exploitation. The violence of hunting wild game is mixed with other footage, suggesting violence against other subjects of the camera. The film’s final sequence, in which an indigenous man remarks “I like to visit your country if I find chance”, is intended to address the asymmetric relationship between ethnographers and their subjects.
– Wikipedia
Kubelka, Peter - 1966 - Unsere Afrikareise [23.976 fps].mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 12 min 32 s
Size: 215 MiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 690x480 ~> 690x540
Aspect ratio: 1.277
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Bit rate: 2 200 kb/s
BPP: 0.277
Audio
#1: English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Stereo)
Language(s):German, English
Subtitles:None
