Peter Weibel Movies

In Nivea, an actor, holding a rubber ball, stands motionless for one minute (like a standing frame) in front of the screen onto which empty frames...

As an aquarium, the TV set signifies the identity of a real and reproduced event. Its images transform the TV set into an aquarium, a still-life, an...

Short film depicting a man and woman smoking.

Between the TV set and viewer, a function exists whereby the user switches on and off the appliance. I have reproduced this function and made it the...

"The word 'monodrom' is derived from the Greek and means one-way street. That is TV: a one-way communication system, a monodrom." - Peter Weibel

"I throw water in space with a bucket. A video camera pictures this. Another camera pictures this event from the TV screen. 3 modalities of reality:...

Short film based on the principle of an audiotape loop.

A sound comedy where the action of the performers is directed by strange sounds.

Gustav Klimt in search of the artwork of the present. Using Klimt's paintings, "Quiet Pond" presents reasons why kitsch is art, art is kitsch, and...

Broadcast on the Austrian Television (ORF) in June 1972, TV & VT-Works comprises a series of ‘tele-actions’ in which a cigar-smoking...

"Video as box, the TV set as box. Communication is the medium."

“The video compilation TV & VT WORKS consists of short performances that deal with the relationship between reality and the film/TV camera...

Experimental short merging poetry and the words of Jesus Christ.

Two cameras are connected via a switch and the recordings are blended into a picture on the monitor. Layers of various body parts are made in order...

Experimental short examining the self in deep ways.