Peter Weibel Movies

Communication is the medium

Gustav Klimt in search of the artwork of the present. Using Klimt's paintings, "Quiet Pond" presents reasons why kitsch is art, art is kitsch, and...

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

"I throw water in space with a bucket. A video camera pictures this. Another camera pictures this event from the TV screen. 3 modalities of reality:...

1972 film documenting blood-giving and exhibition of the process.

As an aquarium, the TV set signifies the identity of a real and reproduced event. Its images transform the TV set into an aquarium, a still-life, an...

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

Experimental short merging poetry and the words of Jesus Christ.

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

"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

Experimental short examining the self in deep ways.

‘Kunst & Revolution is a documentation on the famous action known as the “filthy uni mess”, which led to a jury court trial. I only...

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

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...

Short film based on the principle of an audiotape loop.