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Adebar is the first of Peter Kubelka's 'metric films', in which every element of the composition is precisely ordered and in relation to the gestalt. The film is made up of single units---13, 26 and 52 frames long---which are subjected to a complex rule-system, including a strict use of positive and negative space, that determines their structure within the film.
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Theatrical
01 Jan 1957
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Austria
Austria
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Really weird "experimental film" that I'm just kind of sat here being bored by.
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I admired the director's intentions with this short film and the experimental nature of the content but this avant garde pulled off something miraculous in making 2 minutes feel like a eternity.
Director Peter Kubelka supposedly has some strict system in place with this film and the majority of his films with the composition and balancing out light and dark film but I am not entirely sure. Adebar is seeming the same images replayed over and over again with the same monotonous music (which is again played over and over again, I think the track is only 2 to 3 seconds long and just repeats). The images are comprised of shadowy figures of people dancing. These images shift between normal…
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This film was originally commissioned as an ad for a cafe. You could think, "How could this random assortment of dancing silhouettes ever be an ad for anything?" But then you might remember the highly successful iPhone ads that were nothing but dancing silhouettes.
This is cool. The original soundtrack got in the way for me, but the instant I put on something else, I was surprised by the style and movement of this piece. Surprised I haven't seen this imitated more often.
Recommended pairings: "I Melt With You" by Modern English or Daft Punk's "One More Time."
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El cine métrico por Peter Kubelka
Al final de Reminiscencias de un viaje a Lituania Jonas Mekas visita a su amigo Peter Kubelka. “El cine de Kubelka es como una pieza de cristal, o como otro objeto de la naturaleza: no parece que esté hecho por el hombre; uno podría fácilmente imaginar que fue recogido de entre los tesoros orgánicos de la naturaleza.” Y Peter Kubelka, entrevistado por Mekas, decía:
Ayer oí esta expresión: to hit the screen; es fantástica en inglés. Hit the screen, golpear la pantalla; es lo que hacen realmente las imágenes. Por ejemplo, si se hace funcionar el proyector vacío se oye el ritmo. Es un ritmo de base del cine. Creo que muy pocos cineastas…
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Perhaps not Kubelka’s greatest, but his most seductive.
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Rejects narrative, including our sense of end, beginning, middle, and
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Perhaps my eye is not yet trained to see such nuances but just like the last Kubelka I watched it just doesn't engage me the same way Arnulf Rainer did and the breaking down of flow still isn't as interesting as it was there. Maybe I need to research his work more and return.
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Kubelka's amazing dance begins in the title. People calling a 2 minute short film "boring/an eternity" is one of those reasons why Letterboxd should be destroyed.
Available here.
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Did a great job pissing me off.
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looks pretty but that doesnt mean it isnt mid
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