Arnulf Rainer

Austria

1960

7 Min

Black and White

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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DIR Peter Kubelka

Synopsis

This is a film composed entirely of frames of solid black and solid white, which Kubelka strings together in lengths as long as 24 frames and as short as a single frame. When he alternates between single black and white frames, a rapid flicker of motion-pictures projection; during the longer sections of darkness one waits in nervous anticipation for the flicker to return, without knowing precisely what form it will take. —Fred Camper

Director

Peter Kubelka

Peter Kubelka (b. 1934) is a multifaceted artist and theoretician who has worked in the art forms of film, cuisine, music, architecture, speaking and writing. Since the beginning of the fifties he has been a leading exponent of the international avante garde film and has had screenings in all the European countries as well as in the USA and Japan.

In 1964 Kubelka co-founded the Austrian Film Museum and has been its curator ever since.

Kubelka has been involved in creating avante garde film collections, a music ensemble and has taught at various universities in the USA and Europe. In addition, he has been a professor in film at the Art Academy in Frankfurt since 1978 where he also served as Rector in the period of 1985-88. As a theoretician he has held numerous lectures and participated in many symposiums among others, “Non-Industrial Film – Non-Industrial Cuisine”. Already in 1967 Kubelka created his first theoretical work in cuisine as an art form and in 1980 his teaching… read more

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Agustina

25Feb11

Light, shadow, sound, silence, the four elements of cinema, at their bare essentials. Rinse and repeat. Rinse again. An love poem to Kubelka's preoccupation with form over content -structural cinema- and his obsession with metrics. A visionary, yes. But the experimental is not really for me.