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Adebar (1957)

Adebar poster
Directed by
Peter Kubelka
Country
Austria
Runtime
2 min
Rating
4.7 of 10 from 49 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Black and white footage of dancers is cut together in a strict mathematical pattern. The film is a short experiment in pure rhythm and motion.

fragmentaryrepetitiverhythmicexperimentalminimalistabstractsilent

What happens

Adebar is a 1957 Austrian avant-garde short film directed by Peter Kubelka. It is the first entry in Kubelka's trilogy of metrical films, followed by Schwechater and Arnulf Rainer. Adebar is the first film to be edited entirely according to a mathematical rhythmic strategy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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