Unsere Afrikareise (1966)'s comments

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filmcave

Helpful reading material:

http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/230/a-trip-through-peter-kubelkas-unsere-afrikareise-our-trip-to-africa

http://academichack.net/unseretrib.htm

http://alsolikelife.com/shooting/2007/06/928-unsere-afrikareise-our-trip-to-africa-1966-peter-kubelka-a-preview/

http://alsolikelife.com/shooting/2007/06/928-unsere-afrikareise-our-trip-to-africa-1966-peter-kubelka-screening-notes/

11 years 3 months ago

the3rdman

Commodification and objectification of the people and resources of Africa?

12 years 3 months ago

allisoncm

After reading descriptions of this film across the Internet, I've found that it's meant to be viewed without subtitles. However, if there are subtitles available one day, I'm willing to rewatch it.

12 years 4 months ago

dpka

Poor animals!

8 years ago

xianjiro

NSFP (not safe for PETA) aka includes animals being spoiler

6 months ago

Torgo

To quote again from one of filmcave's (helpful) articles: "Incidentally, Kubelka intentionally left the film unsubtitled. He believes subtitles ruin the integrity of the image. But perhaps more significantly, he seems to feel that the pure sound-and-image collisions will be strong enough to have an impact on a viewer, without her or him necessarily understanding the (mostly German) dialogue."
I'm German and find the muffled dialogue very hard to understand anyway; I also feel like it's not necessary. This is more about montage / experiment in composition.

As one of the other articles states: "While there is no definite narrative in Kubelka’s “Unsere Afrikarese” nor use of subtitles for the non-German-speaking audience, his use of non-temporal cuts in editing (i.e. no definite progression of time or any hint about when in the trip certain shots occurred) [...]"
Of course there is a difference between that and randomness. How much that will do for you as the viewer, except if you're interested in technical aspects, is another story.

2 years 10 months ago

corchap

Effective film making for those willing to look beyond the moving images to the causality between shots

5 years 12 months ago

Emiam

3/10
Thanks, Sreviko, but lousy quality!

8 years 8 months ago