Screenplay: 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

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 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

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

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 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 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...