Peter Weibel Movies

Communication is the medium

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

Because of its exclusive reference to meaning, Fingerprint is not only language for world, the reproduction of objects and symbol, but also language...

Short film based on the principle of an audiotape loop.

Experimental short merging poetry and the words of Jesus Christ.

“The video compilation TV & VT WORKS consists of short performances that deal with the relationship between reality and the film/TV camera...

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

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...

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

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

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 examining the self in deep ways.

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

Short film depicting a man and woman smoking.

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...

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....

"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...