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Movie poster: Our Trip to Africa (1966)
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Our Trip to Africa

1966 · 13 min
5.8 / 10 · TMDB

Originally commissioned by an Austrian couple in 1961 to photograph a travel diary documenting their wild game hunt, Kubelka shot three hours of film and recorded fourteen hours of audio. Over the next few years, Kubelka toiled in the editing bay, producing a work charged with intricate, ironic brutality.

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Original Title Unsere Afrikareise
Year 1966
Country Austria
Director Peter Kubelka
Runtime 13 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.8/10 (43 votes)

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Kubelka constructs the film as a radical montage experiment, where meticulously edited image and sound create a dissonant, ironic relationship. He explores the brutal contrast between the hunters' perspective and the reality of the African landscape, transforming travel footage into a critique of colonial gaze.

What lingers after viewing is not a story, but the visceral impact of rhythmic repetition and juxtaposition. The film becomes a sensory assault that challenges passive observation, leaving the viewer to grapple with its complex, often uncomfortable, audio-visual poetry. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Peter Kubelka

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