Arnulf Rainer

One of the breakthrough films of the Viennese school of experimental film made at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, Arnulf Rainer is named a er the Viennese abstract artist and later actionist. Peter Kubelka picks up four types of film strips: a clear blank, enlightened black film, a clean soundtrack, and a soundtrack with recorded background noise. This is how he emphasizes the basic elements of reality being captured in film - light, darkness, silence and noise - and the way these elements are transformed on lm material. The illusion of motion is achieved by a stroboscopic effect and the interpolation of the eye between the ashes of the fields. (Marienbad Film Festival)