Curated ! Introduced by Steve Anker These master filmmakers return to the mechanical nature of filmmaking as a way of giving shape to their understanding of form and structure. Peter Kubelka's "metrical" films Schwechater, Adebar and Arnulf Rainer use the basic flicker phenomenon of the camera/projector to create uniquely filmic photo-plays. Pause! and Unsere Afrikareise structure moving images into kinetic force-fields that balance between sharply-pointed form and charged content. Kurt Kren positions himself as a witness to events in his films, sometimes to man-made acts (among them the Materialaktions of Gîter Brus and Otto Muehl) and sometimes to natural phenomena. In each of his films there is an unerring communion with his subject while filming, after which the material is filtered through a graphically conceived structure. The result is percussive and deprived of its implied "natural" flow, but vivid as record and cinematic experience.-Steve Anker Steve Anker is the Artistic/Program Director of San Francisco Cinematheque. This is Program 2 in the touring series "Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema: 1955-1993" which will be presented at S.F. Cinematheque and Pacific Film Archive in early 1995. Thanks to the Cinematheque, Sixpack Film of Vienna, and Austria's Ministry of Art and Culture and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Films by Kurt Kren: 1/57: Versuch mit synthetischem Ton (Test) (1957, 2 mins, B!W). 3/60: Baume im Herbst (1960, 5 mins, B!W). 8/64: Ana - Aktion Brus (1964, 3 mins, Silent, B!W). 9/64: O Tannenbaum (1964, 3 mins, Silent, Color). 15/67: TV (1967, 4 mins, Silent, B!W). 26/71: Zeichenfilm - Balzac und das Auge Gottes (1971, 1 min, Silent, B!W). 32/76: An W + B (1976, 8 mins, Silent, Color). 37/78: Tree Again (1978, 4 mins, Silent, Color). 42/83: no film (1983, 1 sec, Silent, B!W). (All 16mm) Films by Peter Kubelka: Unsere Afrikareise* (Our Trip to Africa, 1966, 12.5 mins, Color, 16mm). Pause! (1977, 12 mins, Color, 16mm). Adebar* (1957, 1.5 mins, B!W, 35mm). Schwechater* (1958, 1 mins, Color, 35mm). Arnulf Rainer (1960, 6.5 mins, B!W, 35mm). * shown twice.