Peter Rubin

History

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.

Movies

Cinématon XV
Cinématon XV
N°144
Reel 15 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
The Vegetarians
The Vegetarians
Director
A simple meal of meticulously photographed ingredients with gruesome close-ups.
Environment II
Environment II
Director
Holland/USA Studies
Holland/USA Studies
Director
The Day is two feet long
The Day is two feet long
Director
Rhythmic Moves
Rhythmic Moves
Director
Composition in Black and White
Composition in Black and White
Director
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.