Bärbel Neubauer
(*1959) was born in Austria, studied film and stage design in Vienna at the Academy of Arts, diploma in 1983. She made more than 40 animation films and experimental films since 1980 and is composing music and filmmusic since 1991.
Bärbel Neubauer has been working with 35mm cinema films, 70mm IMAX cinema films and Quicktime movies, 70mm IMAX film, and life action.
Her animation films of the 90s are mostly abstract on film works, that she painted stamped and scratched on 35mm film stock.
From 2000 on she worked on digital "motion painting in image and sound", creating among others Flockenspiel I-IV in different techniques. In 2005 she received the "Women's Cultural Award for Film and TV" from the country Carinthia/ Austria for it.
Her newest works are Airwaves, Fractal Cycles, and Morphs of Pegasus.
Her films ran at numerous international animation and film festivals, and received international recognition.
She teaches workshops and courses at colleges and universities in Europe and the US.
Source: spirals & morphs
Neubauer composes and performs her own music: something unique in the annals of absolute film (except, perhaps for some of the middle Jordan Belson films). She combines a mixture of rhythmic elements that she can prerecord on electronic samples with live performance on clarinet and other instruments. These compositions have a very personal sound, casual and relaxed, and well-fitted to the mood profile of the visual imagery.
(William Moritz "The Film Strip Tells All" in ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 3.6 - September 1998)
Source: Animation World Network
Reading
Links
- Bärbel Neubauer's website
- Baerbel Neubauer DVD sources: Europe and CVM
- "Roots: An Experiment in Images and Music" by Bärbel Neubauer
- "The Film Strip Tells All" by William Moritz