▸Fast Ubu

An ultra-fast mirror of the UbuWeb film archive. 3,205 avant-garde films and videos, free to stream.

Fast Ubu re-hosts UbuWeb's film and video collection for faster loading and search. All works belong to their artists. It's an independent project, not affiliated with UbuWeb.

Samuel Beckett, the portrait that watches over UbuWeb

Père Ubu (1936) by Dora Maar — the armadillo fetus that resembles Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi

▸Why is it called Ubu?

You'll have to ask the creators of UbuWeb. But when looking this up I found the Père Ubu by Dora Maar from 1936, a baby armadillo named after the character Ubu Roi. Wow.

▸Acknowledgements

Cheng Lou's pretext and general web wisdom
Gray Crawford putting me onto Gaborator
Kenneth Goldsmith and the whole Ubu team