Peter Kubelka: Collected Shorts (1955-1977)

A collection of 6 short films by Peter Kubelka.

Segment 1 – Mosaik im Vertrauen:
Kubelka’s first feature consists of a disjointed sequence of images with the sound and image not running synchronously. The sequence of images leaps, sometimes interrupted by secondary events and sometimes unfolding in the reverse order to the way things ordinarily occur. Thus the story is put together enigmatically like the stones of a mosaic.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378384/?

Segment 2 – Adebar:
Using images of dancing figures in extremely high contrast black-and-white shots, the images are stripped down to their black-and-white essentials so that they can be used in an almost terrifyingly precise construct of image, motion, and repeated sound.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377330/

Segment 3 – Schwechater:
Hired to make a short commercial for Scwechater beer, the beer company undoubtedly thought they were commissioning a film that would help them sell their beers. But Kubelka had other ideas.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378717/

Segment 4 – Arnulf Rainer:
Composed entirely of frames of solid black and solid white, strung together in lengths as long as 24 seconds and as short as a single frame.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377390/

Segment 5 – Unsere Afrikareise:
A semi-docu images of a hunting-trip in Africa. White hunters, naked natives, animals,… pass by in a manner that preserves the individuality of each, but at the same time, the editing of sound and image brings these systems into comparison and collision, producing a complex of multiple meanings, statements, ironies…

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376293/

Segment 6 – Pause!:
Focussing purely on Arnulf Rainer himself and his expressions and movements, it attemps to ‘dissolve’ Arnulf Rainer.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378544/