15/67 TV, 1967, Kurt Kren (Foto: sixpackfilm)

What Is Film:

Program 41–56

Each Tuesday
 
Peter Kubelka's cycle What Is Film was created in 1996 on the occasion of the centenary of cinema. In the words of Mr Kubelka, the series defines film as "an independent art form and a tool which cultivates new ways of thinking. These 63 programs offer young filmmakers, students and anyone genuinely interested in the medium of film a basic overview of film history."

Peter Kubelka's cycle is shown each Tuesday. Discounted ticket for students with an annual membership at the price of EUR 3,00.
 

Was ist Film, Volume 14 of the FilmmuseumSynemaPublications (In German), makes the cycle accessible via essays and film stills and contains writings on all 63 programs, as well as 200 photographs, an index to the 73 artists in the cycle, and an in-depth interview with the curator.
Related materials

15/67 TV

(1967, 4 min)

20/68 Schatzi

(1968, 2 min)

3/60 Bäume im Herbst

(1960, 5 min)

31/75 Asyl

(1975, 8 min)

32/76 An W+B

(1976, 8 min)

33/77 Keine Donau

(1977, 9 min)

37/78 Tree again

(1978, 4 min)

49/95 tausendjahrekino

(1995, 3 min)

66

(1966, 5 min)

69

(1968, 5 min)

70

(1970, 4 min)

77

(1977, 7 min)

A Colour Box

(1935, 3 min)

A Frog on the Swing

(1988, 6 min)

A Stravinsky Portrait

(1966, 57 min)

All My Life

(1966, 3 min)

Amor

(1980, 14 min)

Anticipation of the Night

(1958, 40 min)

Bang!

(1986, 10 min)

Blazes

(1961, 3 min)

Branding

(1929, 22 min)

Breathing

(1963, 5 min)

Castro Street

(1966, 10 min)

Cats

(1956, 1 min)

Color de Luxe

(1986/93, 6 min)

Der Zithervirtuose

(1934, 9 min)

Der Zweigroschenzauber

(1929, 3 min)

Early Abstractions

(1939-50, 22 min)

Eaux d'artifice

(1953, 13 min)

Eclipse of the Sun Virgin

(1967, 12 min)

Eyewash

(1959, 3 min)

Film Path-2 (Casting)

(1977/94, 7 min)

Filmstudie

(1926, 6 min)

Fire of Waters

(1965, 6 min)

Fist Fight

(1964, 9 min)

Form Phases #4

(1954, 3 min)

Free Radicals

(1958, 4 min)

Fuji

(1974, 9 min)

Galaxie

(1966, 82 min)

Gulls and Buoys

(1972, 7 min)

Hold Me While I'm Naked

(1966, 15 min)

Im Photoatelier

(1932, 28 min)

Images of Asian Music

(1973-74, 27 min)

Inflation

(1928, 3 min)

Interview ohne Ton

(1976/96, 2 min)

Jamestown Baloos

(1957, 5 min)

Le Sang d'un poète

(1930, 53 min)

LMNO

(1978, 9 min)

Love Making 1-4

(1968, 36 min)

Loving

(1956, 4 min)

Man of Aran

(1932-34, 76 min)

Meshes of the Afternoon

(1943, 14 min)

Ming Green

(1966, 7 min)

Mix-1 (32 Filme 1989-94)

(1994, 22 min)

Mother's Day

(1948, 22 min)

N:O:T:H:I:N:G

(1968, 35 min)

Ostafrika

(1993, 5 min)

Party

(1995, 17 min)

Rabbit's Moon

(1971, 16 min)

Rainbow Dance

(1936, 4 min)

Recreation

(1956, 1 min)

Rennsymphonie

(1928, 8 min)

Rhythm

(1957, 1 min)

Rhythmus 21

(1921, 4 min)

Rhythmus 23 [Fragment]

(1923/24, 4 min)

Rubber Cement

(1976, 10 min)

Ruskin

(1974-75, 50 min)

Saugus Series

(1974, 19 min)

Scorpio Rising

(1963, 30 min)

Sorrows

(1969, 6 min)

Sparkill Ave!

(1992, 5 min)

Swain

(1950, 20 min)

T.Z.

(1979, 9 min)

The Brig

(1964, 66 min)

The Dead

(1960, 10 min)

The Illiac Passion [Fragment]

(1964-67, 32 min)

Theaterbesuch

(1934, 24 min)

Time Flies

(1997, 5 min)

Trade Tattoo

(1937, 6 min)

Trial Balloons

(1982, 5 min)

Twice A Man

(1963, 46 min)

U.S.W. (Donauland)

(1978/96, 4 min)

Un Miracle

(1954, 1 min)

Valentin de las Sierras

(1968, 10 min)

Valse Triste

(1978, 6 min)

Vormittagsspuk

(1927, 6 min)

Water and Power

(1989, 55 min)

Wild Night in El Reno

(1977, 6 min)

Window Water Baby Moving

(1959, 12 min)

Work Done

(1972, 34 min)
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