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Titles credited to Peter Tscherkassky
Outer Space
A premonition of a horror film, lurking danger: A house - at night, slightly tilted in the camera's view, eerily lit - surfaces from the pitch black, then sinks back into it again. A young woman begin...
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Dream Work
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 cinematography. An homage to Man Ray, de...
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Train Again
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 third darkroom film L’Arrivée (an ho...
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Coming Attractions
A film woven around the idea that between early cinema and avant-garde film exists a connection.
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Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine
An attempt to transform a Roman Western into a Greek tragedy.
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Get Ready
Beach afternoon; run away at full speed. Official trailer of the International Film Festival Viennale 1999.
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The Arrival
The first of Peter Tscherkassky's Cinemascope trilogy of short films is a fragmented glimpse of images pulsating with chaotic rhythm as they fight white margins for room in his palette. Mirrored frame...
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Manufractur
A tangled network woven with tiny particles of movements broken out of found footage and compiled anew: the elements of the "to the left, to the right, back and forth" grammar of narrative space, disc...
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Miniatures: Many Berlin Artists in Hoisdorf
On 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 resid...
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Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory)
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 the individual developed...
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