Peter Rubin
Directing
Biography
Peter Rubin is a film critic, a teacher, and a filmmaker. He left New York for Amsterdam in 1968. With Willum Thijssen and Paul de Mol he founded Holland Experimental Film (HEF) in the 70's, a cooperative which allowed a wide diffusion of local experimental cinema. At the end of this decade, Rubin set up Experiment 79 which discovered on a large scale east european experimental cinema (Yougoslavia, Hungary, Poland). For the 10-11th issue of CinémAction dedicated to Avant-Garde cinema, he coordinated the chapters about east european cinema.
Known For
Young Ursula plays in a tree and ruins her fancy dress. Her elderly mother teaches her a cruel lesson about whether things can ever be mended; what Ursula learns about how to behave may not be what her mother intended.
Ursula
Reel 15 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
Cinématon XV
A simple meal of meticulously photographed ingredients with gruesome close-ups.
The Vegetarians
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The Day is two feet long
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Environment II
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Holland/USA Studies
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Rhythmic Moves
Composition in Black and White is an attempt to isolate the different elements of the film: rhythm, melody, colors, composition, invoice, to restructure them and thus create a new form of cinema, at the same time as a new way of looking. The result is that each shot becomes a complete cinematic event. I ask each viewer to watch, quite simply to step out of their usual film viewing conditioning.