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Peter Kubelka Saturday, October 19 Directors in Focus: Peter Kubelka Peter Kubelka is the legendary Austrian ?lmmaker, theorist, lecturer, and cook, not to mention co-founder of Anthology Film Archives in NYC. He is also a founder-member and curator of the Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum since 1963. He was born March 23, 1934 in Vienna, Austria. Kubelka has been an independent filmmaker since 1952. Alongside the Philadelphia premiere of the documentary Fragments of Kubelka, we will be presenting an expanded program of the films of Peter Kubelka. Program: 2:00PM: The Films of Peter Kubelka 3:30PM: Fragments of Kubelka 8:30PM: The Films of Peter Kubelka (repeat screening) The Films of Peter Kubelka Peter Kubelka‘s films are often divided in two categories: the metric films in which Kubelka has taken Soviet montage, structurally, one step further as well as preceded the international movement of structural cinema; and the metaphoric films, which define a purely cinematographic language, articulated between the elements of sound and image. Kubelka’s radical and pioneering body of ?lms is a highly condensed work of little more than an hour, but that is not the sum of his work. Kubelka is also known as a non-writing theorist, using non-verbal elements in his lectures, such as music, food, objects, tools, and facial expressions. “Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium: and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time (finding such a lack of it now elsewhere), I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world’s greatest filmmaker—which is to say, simply: see his films! ... by all means/above all else ... et cetera.” -- Stan Brakhage