Cinematography: Peter Tscherkassky

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Plot 18 years after Kurt Kren produced his third film 3/60 Bäume im Herbst (3/60 Trees in Autumn), he shot his masterpiece 37/78 Tree Again. 18 years after I created my...

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Plot A found footage film about oral rituals, about festive occasions and about a married couple who understood how to enrich and enliven their cosy togetherness. We see the pair pouring...

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Plot Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, according to his biographers (and his letters confirm this fact), was an extremely sensuous person, and Nachtstueck (Nocturne) was intended to refer to this aspect of his...

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Plot Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky has created a new ident for MUBI: a 10 second film hand-made from 16mm.

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Plot Freeze Frame is an example of a filmic significator from which the transparency and invisibility has been removed. Material which has been repeatedly re-filmed (a construction site, a rubbish incinerating...

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Plot Alternating between recognizable and abstract picture worlds, between theoretical reflection and lush sensuality is the main distinguishing characteristic of Peter Tscherkassky’s work. That is particularly true when he concerns himself...

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Cast Regina Baumgart

Plot 256 frame enlargements of a continuous dance movement were dissected into 16 segments, each consisting of 16 frames. These segments were rearranged and rephotographed frame-by-frame. The resulting synthetic composition of...

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Cast Armin Schmicki

Plot A game with light and sound that explodes out of the calm into a delirium of movement and finally returns, after the “blood-letting”, to rigidity. (Irene Judmayer)

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Plot "Liebesfilm" is an ironic attack on one of the durables of the Hollywood clichés – the film kiss. A short take of mouths approaching each other is shown 522 times....

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Cast Rolf-Peter Baacke · Fritz Balthaus · Ingrid Buschmann · Frieder Butzmann

Plot The semi-documentary footage used for "Miniaturen - viele Berliner Künstler in Hoisdorf" ("Miniatures--Many Berlin Artists in Hoisdorf") was shot on June 3, 4 and 5, 1983. That weekend, in what...