Schwechater

Cinema is not movement. Cinema is the projection of stills.

(Peter Kubelka)


Kubelka´s achievement is that he has taken Soviet montage one step further. While Eisenstein used shots as the basic units and edited them together in a pattern to make meanings, Kubelka has gone back to the individual still frame as the essence of cinema. the fact that a projected film consists of 24 still images per second serves as the basis of his art.

(Fred Camper)

Orig. Title
Schwechater
Year
1958
Country
Austria
Duration
1 min
Director
Peter Kubelka
Category
Avantgarde/Arts
Orig. Language
No Dialogue
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Schwechater (Image)
Filmstill (Image)
Credits
Director
Peter Kubelka
Realisation
Peter Kubelka
Concept
Peter Kubelka
Available Formats
35 mm (Distribution Copy)
Aspect Ratio
1:1,37
Sound Format
stereo
Frame Rate
24 fps
Color Format
colour
16 mm (Distribution Copy)
Aspect Ratio
1:1,37
Sound Format
mono
Frame Rate
24 fps
Color Format
colour