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Austrian director, avant-garde films coming to UT |
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Deanna LytleDeanna Lytle |
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Feb 28, 2005 |
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| Peter Kubelka |
Peter Kubelka, avant-garde filmmaker, will present seven of his experimental films on Wednesday, March 2, and Friday, March 4, at 8 p.m. in the Student Union Auditorium and Ingman Room, respectively.
Kubelka’s metric films “Adebar,” “Schwechater,” “Arnulf Rainer” and “Dichtung und Wahrheit (Poetry and Truth)” will be shown the first evening. The metaphoric films “Mosaik Im Vertrauen (Mosaic in Confidence),” “Unsere Afrikareise (Our Trip to Africa)” and “Pause!” will be shown on the second night.
The University of Toledo is one of six venues nationwide to host Kubelka and his films. The program is made possible through support of the Austrian Consulate General in Chicago.
Kubelka is an artist and theoretician who has worked in the areas of film, cuisine, music, architecture, speaking and writing. Since the 1950s, his films have been screened throughout Europe as well as in the United States and Japan. In 1964, he co-founded the Austrian Film Museum and continues to serve as its curator.
He has taught at various universities in the United States and Europe. Kubelka has been the professor of film at the Art Academy in Frankfurt since 1978. His teaching position was expanded to include "film and cuisine as art” in 1980 after he developed theoretical work in the area of cuisine as an art form.
Kubelka’s metric films were developed with the idea that every part of the film is precisely measured and set in relation to the film as a whole. The metric piece “Schwechater” is a commercial for an Austrian beer of the same name that Kubelka was commissioned to make in 1957. The final product of black-and-white images discolored to almost abstraction may not have been what company officials were looking for, yet it is an example of Kubelka’s unique touch. His newest film, “Dichtung und Wahrheit (Poetry and Truth),” is also part of this series and is a montage of footage from advertising reels.
The metaphoric films, on the other hand, juxtapose image and place in odd ways. “Pause!” documents artist Arnulf Rainer performing breathing exercises. “Unsere Afrikareise (Our Trip to Africa)” shows European hunters in Africa relating to the people and animals.
Admission to each night’s screening is $5 for general admission and $3 for students.
For more information, contact the department of theatre and film at 419.530.2202 or visit www.theatrefilm.utoledo.edu.
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