THE FILMS OF PETER KUBELKA 1955-1977
PETER KUBELKA is a major figure in the contemporary avant-garde film movement—a movement disGnguished to a large extent by the casGng aside of the tradiGonal narraGve form, by the quesGoning of illusionism in cinema, by a movement towards abstracGon, and by a reflexive invesGgaGon of the nature of the filmic medium. Kubelka, a Viennese, and the only prominent European in the group, belongs to the especially abstract and Minimalist side of this mulGfaceted movement. By Elena Pinto Simon
VORMITTAGSSPUK
(GHOSTS BEFORE BREAKFAST) by HANS RICHTER 1928
«Pure vintage dada. A humorous, deligh\\ul, grotesque in which ordinary objects rebel against their daily rouGne and, for a brief period of liberaGon, fallow their own laws. A bow- Ge undoes itself, bowler hats float gracefully through the air, coffee cups leap from a tray to smash themselves on the ground, and so forth. At the stroke of noon, they return to their normal funcGonal state. GHOSTS BEFORE BREAKFAST represents one of the earliest collaboraGons between avant-garde filmmaker and composer: Paul Hindemith's score accompanied the film when it was first shown at an avent-garde music fesGval in Baden- Baden in 1928.» Standish D. Lawder.
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