Direction: 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 Coming Attractions and the construction of its images are woven around the idea that there is a deep, underlying relationship between early cinema and avant-garde film.

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Plot The Exquisite Corpus is based on various erotic films and advertising rushes. I play on the "cadavre exquis" technique used by the Surrealists, drawing disparate body parts constellating magical creatures....

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Cast Barbara Hershey

Plot A young woman, night, an American feature film. She enters a house, a dark corridor, a thriller. While she forces her way into an unknown space together with the viewer,...

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Cast Barbara Hershey

Plot A woman goes to bed, falls asleep, and begins to dream. This dream takes her to a landscape of light and shadow, evoked in a form only possible through classic...

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Cast Eli Wallach

Plot In words of Tscherkassky the hero of Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine is easy to identify. Walking down the street unknowingly, he suddenly realizes that he is not...

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Cast Brigitta Burger-Utzer · Max Mattuschka · Julian Sharp · Peter Tscherkassky

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

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 L'Arrivée is Tscherkassky's second hommage to the Lumiére-brothers.

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Plot Afternoon on the beach. Speeding escape. Official Trailer Viennale International Film Festival '99.

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Plot A tangled network woven with tiny particles of movements broken out of found footage and compiled anew.

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Plot Not a stage direction, but rather something very concrete is hidden behind the technical term. Something which betrays a little of the yearning for intelligent and playful dealings with the...

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 In the darkroom, 50 unexposed film strips were laid across a surface, upon which a frame of "La sortie des ouvrier de l'usine Lumière" was projected. The stringing together of...

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...