Peter Weibel Movies

"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:...

Experimental short examining the self in deep ways.

Short film based on the principle of an audiotape loop.

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

"If I were the second son of my mother and father I would have been my brother. Thus, I am brother, I am brother of the second son of my mother and...

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...

Short film depicting a typewriter and text falling over.

"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

Communication is the medium

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...

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...

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...

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

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...