Watch Schwechater (1958) Online

In 1957, Peter Kubelka was hired to make a short commercial for Schwechater beer. The beer company undoubtedly thought they were commissioning a film that would help them sell their beers; Kubelka had other ideas. He shot his film with a camera that did not even have a viewer, simply pointing it in the general direction of the action. He then took many months to edit his footage, while the company fumed and demanded a finished product. Finally he submitted a film, 90 seconds long, that featured extremely rapid cutting (cutting at the limits of most viewers' perception) between images washed out almost to the point of abstraction — in black-and-white positive and negative and with red tint — of dimly visible people drinking beer and of the froth of beer seen in a fully abstract pattern. Read More

Watch Schwechater online. Featuring , Schwechater is classified as Drama genre movie with an average rating across the web of 4.8. It is available for streaming online in the USA The movie was filmed in Austria and was released on 1958. Schwechater was directed by Peter Kubelka. Read Less