Peter Kubelka

Director of
MONUMENT FILM

Born in 1934 in Vienna.
Kubelka 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 position was expanded to include “Film and Cuisine as Art”. Another of his large projects has been his plan for the ideal cinema – The Invisible Cinema – the first draft of which he finished in 1958. It was created again in 1970 for Anthology Film Archives in New York where he was also a co-founder. It was created once again nineteen years later for the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna.

Films (selection):
MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN (1955), ADEBAR (1957), SCHWECHATER (1958), ARNULF RAINER (1960), UNSERE AFRIKAREISE (1966), PAUSE! (1967), DICHTUNG UND WAHRHEIT (1996-2003), ZERRSPIEGEL (2007)