Peter Weibel Movies

Communication is the medium

"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...

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

Short film depicting a typewriter and text falling over.

Short film depicting a man and woman smoking.

Experimental short merging poetry and the words of Jesus Christ.

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...

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

"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:...

"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

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...

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

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...

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...

"Video as box, the TV set as box. Communication is the medium."