the Peter Weibel Film Night
dal 18/3/2004 al 19/3/2004
Segnalato da
18/3/2004
the Peter Weibel Film Night
ZKM_Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
A selection of experimental films, concept videos, feature films, and commercial and musical clips that Peter Weibel produced from the mid-1960s onwards as an artist, musician, director and scriptwriter as well as films in which he appeared as an actor.
Film Video Music
Friday, 19 March 2004, 20.00 – 01.00 hrs at the ZKM | Media Theatre
admission euro 8 / euro 4
The ZKM is taking the occasion of the Peter Weibel Film Night to screen
a selection of experimental films, concept videos, feature films, and
commercial and musical clips that Peter Weibel produced from the
mid-1960s onwards as an artist, musician, director and scriptwriter as
well as films in which he appeared as an actor. Some of these films
have not been shown for years or, indeed, were regarded as lost.
Weibel produced his first films in association with the Viennese
experimental cinema (Kurt Kren, Peter Kubelka, Hans Scheugl, Ernst
Schmidt Jr.), in which he examined the cultural and technical freedom
this technology had to offer.
From the end of the 1960s he continued
these formal aesthetic experiments in the medium of video, although his
work now focused mainly on performances and surreal shorts. In the
1970s, Weibel produced programmes for Austrian television in which he
used deviating images to confront and challenge everyday forms of usage
and to tap the creative potential of the mass medium. Since he regarded
every new kind of image technology as an opportunity to develop an
alternative cinematic syntax, he embraced computer-based video montage
and image generation at an early stage.
The diversity of Peter Weibel’s cinematic oeuvre reveals several
interconnecting elements: an analysis of the world by means of
linguistic structures and the technical conditions of communication as
well as serious criticism – laced with anarchic humour – of the norms
of society and the art system.
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