Peter Tscherkassky
Director · b. 1958 · Vienna, Austria
Peter Tscherkassky is an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker who currently works exclusively with found footage. All of his work is done with film and heavily edited in the darkroom, rather than relying on technological modes. Tscherkassky not only presents beautiful and haunting images, but also forces the audience to rethink the traditional conception of film and film narrative.
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Movie5.2DocumentaryTV MovieThis historical and analytical documentary draws attention to the background of the roots of "New Austrian Cinema" and presents Austria as a film country to be taken seriously. The audience gets to see rare early works by well-known filmmakers as well as shots of landscapes that served as a source of inspiration and locations that have produced important Austrian films since the end of the 19th century.
Movie5.4On a weekend in June 1983, in what was deemed a "country outing,“ an impressive number of artists from Berlin went to a small village in Schleswig-Holstein; their intention was to give the local residents a taste of Berlin’s avant-garde art. This event included presentations of dance, music, performance art, painting, land art and film. Back in Berlin the footage was manipulated in several ways to produce an “experimental examination.” —independent film and video database
Miniaturen – Viele Berliner Künstler in Hoisdorf
Miniatures: Many Berlin Artists in Hoisdorf
1983 · 8 votes
Movie7.4Parallel Space: Inter-View is made with a photo camera. A miniature photo is exactly the size of two film frames. Optically it resembles a flickering double exposure; the former temporal and spatial unity disintegrates into pieces which have a correspondence with each other. (Peter Tscherkassky) Photographic processes - the material transformations involved in recording, developing, printing and projecting - functions as metaphors for psychological processes.
Parallel Space: Inter-View
1994 · 5 votes
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In this documentary, Peter Tscherkassky talks about his work, and he demonstrates in the darkroom how his movies are made.
Peter Tscherkassky – Kino aus der Dunkelkammer
2014 · 1 votes