Although this is an analoge film, it references digital principles and uses a binary system by only having cadres of black or white. Printed out frame by frame, you can see the highly conceptual quality of Peter Kubelka's score for "Arnulf Rainer":
Sequences in "Arnulf Rainer" reach from one single frame up to 24 frames.
If you have only one frame, there are just two possible sequences: black and white
For two frames there are already four possible sequences, white and white, white and black, black and white, black and black. (= 2²)
With three frames, the number of sequences reaches 8 (=2³) and so on.
Oppositional factors in that film not only include black or white, but also sound (white noise) and silence (in reference to white noise: black silence).
In "Arnulf Rainer", Kubelka uses sequences of 1,2,4,8,12 and 24 cadres. He uses 576 cadres altogether, which is what he calls "the square of a second" - given that to fill one second of film, you need 24 cadres, so the square is 24 x 24.
peter kubelka's "arnulf rainer" (1960) as an analogue execution of a binary code = set of instructions --> compare to vera molnar's "machine imaginaire"
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