Adebar (1957)

Directed by

Peter Kubelka

Country

Austria

Runtime

2 min

Rating

4.7 of 10 from 49 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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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