Peter Kubelka Movies
- 2000

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty7.72000HD
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
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- 2011

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film6.72011HD
Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...
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- 1968

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches7.41968HD
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family,...
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- 2007

365 Day Project
365 Day Project102007HD
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...
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- 1977

Pause!
Pause!4.71977HD
Short film by Peter Kubelka. Arnulf Rainer contorts his mind and body before the camera.
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- 1955

Mosaic in Trust
Mosaic in Trust5.21955HD
In his first film work, Kubelka evokes episodes of flirtation, courtship, and break-ups, played out against a series of non-corresponding audio...
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- 1996

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania71996HD
Jonas Mekas weaves an elegiac diary film from his 1971–72 return to Lithuania, chronicling a visit to his birthplace of Semeniškiai...
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- 1993

Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress
Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress01993HD
An historic event: Peter Kubelka gives a lecture at the Library of Congress.
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- 1979

Paradise Not Yet Lost
Paradise Not Yet Lost01979HD
The film is arranged in six chronologically-ordered parts, each filmed in a different location during Oona's third year.
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- 2012

Fragments of Kubelka
Fragments of Kubelka52012HD
This epic documentary subtly introduces the complex worldview of iconic filmmaker and theoretician Peter Kubelka (born 1934, Vienna). While...
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- 2012

Antiphon
Antiphon02012HD
Antiphon is constituted by the same 4 basic elements of cinema, light and darkness, sound and silence, as is my film Arnulf Rainer but it has the...
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- 2004

Poetry and Truth
Poetry and Truth72004HD
Discarded takes from advertising films are presented almost untouched, as documents that unwittingly offer valuable and humorous insights into the...
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- 2012

Monument Film
Monument Film102012HD
Arnulf Rainer—every which way but loose.
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- 1960

Arnulf Rainer
Arnulf Rainer4.51960HD
An experimental film, the last in Peter Kubelka's trilogy of “metric films”. Each frame of Arnulf Rainer is composed of darkness or light...
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- 1978

Cinématon
Cinématon4.31978HD
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....
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- 1967

23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II5.61967HD
The second part: Brakhage’s layering of images spends less time with images of war, and begins filtering in scenes of Vienna and his home in...
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- 1957

Adebar
Adebar4.61957HD
Adebar is the first of Peter Kubelka's 'metric films', in which every element of the composition is precisely ordered and in relation to the gestalt....
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- 1966

Our Trip to Africa
Our Trip to Africa5.7671966HD
Originally commissioned by an Austrian couple in 1961 to photograph a travel diary documenting their wild game hunt, Kubelka shot three hours of film...
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- 2020

Tapes
Tapes02020HD
The tapes in the program consist of some of Mekas’ earliest cassettes from the 1990s not long after he first began working with video as well...
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- 2005

Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch
Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch02005HD
A casual, personal portrait of Hermann Nitsch, made with footage I took over the many years of our friendship. Footage includes early performances in...
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