Peter Weibel Movies

Experimental short merging poetry and the words of Jesus Christ.

An instant-camera and a TV camera are placed opposite one another. They operate at the same time. The actor takes photographs with the Polaroid...

"Video as box, the TV set as box. Communication is the medium."

Weibel stages a documentation of the public as an exhibit themselves.

Short film based on the principle of an audiotape loop.

In Nivea, an actor, holding a rubber ball, stands motionless for one minute (like a standing frame) in front of the screen onto which empty frames...

Short film depicting a typewriter and text falling over.

Compilation consisting of 17 of Peter Weibel's earlier works.

Two cameras are connected via a switch and the recordings are blended into a picture on the monitor. Layers of various body parts are made in order...

Short film depicting a man and woman smoking.

"The word 'monodrom' is derived from the Greek and means one-way street. That is TV: a one-way communication system, a monodrom." - Peter Weibel

Broadcast on the Austrian Television (ORF) in June 1972, TV & VT-Works comprises a series of ‘tele-actions’ in which a cigar-smoking...

A sound comedy where the action of the performers is directed by strange sounds.

Between the TV set and viewer, a function exists whereby the user switches on and off the appliance. I have reproduced this function and made it the...

Experimental short examining the self in deep ways.

The behaviour of a one-dimensional stimulus in a linear interval.

In the project Lage vor Ort (1970) the audience enters the gallery and sees on the monitor the image of a man lying on the street in the gutter....

After the fall of the Berlin wall, much changed in Yugoslavia, that is now ex-Yugoslavia; a post industrial, post modern, post national, post...