A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
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.
Director:
1973 Composition in Black and White
1979 Holland/USA Studies
1979 Rhythmic Moves
1980 Environment II
1980 The Day is two feet long
1981 The Vegetarians
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.