Peter Tscherkassky

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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.

Most Popular Peter Tscherkassky Trailers

Total trailers found: 34

Tabula Rasa Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

The target of Tabula Rasa is the heart of cinema. Voyeuristic desire as the pre-condition for all cinema pleasure is at stake here.

Manufractur Trailer (1985)

01 January 1985

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, discharged from all semantic burden.

The Mozart Minute Trailer (2006)

25 January 2006

Twenty-eight well-known filmmakers living and working in Austria were invited by WIENER MOZARTJAHR 2006, to produce associative miniatures on Mozart.

Parallel Space: Inter-View Trailer (1994)

15 March 1994

Parallel Space: Inter-View is made with a photo camera. A miniature photo is exactly the size of two film frames.

Blood-Letting Trailer (1981)

09 February 1981

Aderlaß is a youthful attempt to process the inheritance of the Vienna Actionists through the use of a super 8 camera.

Film of Love Trailer (1982)

01 January 1982

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.

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 2 Trailer (1988)

01 January 1988

On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber, candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz, suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of the German Reichstag.

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness Trailer (1993)

01 January 1993

On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber, candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz, suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of the German Reichstag.

Kelimba Trailer (1986)

01 January 1986

Alternating between recognizable and abstract picture worlds, between theoretical reflection and lush sensuality is the main distinguishing characteristic of Peter Tscherkassky's work.

Erotique Trailer (1982)

01 March 1982

One can determine a line in Tscherkassky’s oeuvre which turns around a game with filmic presentation, with degrees of recognisability — with the only-just and the not-any-more.

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3 Trailer (1993)

01 January 1993

On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber, candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz, suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of the German Reichstag.

Holiday Film Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

A woman on a meadow, strolling around, narcisstically involved, wandering. Now and again one can see her breasts through her half-opened shirt.

Daniel Paul Schrebers Stimmvisionen and Schizo-Schreber Trailer (1987)

01 January 1987

(for Ernst Schmidt jrs. trilogy Memories of a Nervous Illness, part 1 & part 2) 1987/88, 16mm (S 8 bw

Freeze Frame Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

Freeze Frame is an example of a filmic significator from which the transparency and invisibility has been removed.

20 Little Films Trailer (2012)

13 February 2012

Since 1995, the Viennale has invited renowned directors to create short, one-minute films as personal contributions to the festival.

Dream Work Trailer (2001)

17 March 2001

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.

Ballett 16 Trailer (1984)

01 January 1984

256 frame enlargements of a continuous dance movement were dissected into 16 segments, each consisting of 16 frames.

Miniatures: Many Berlin Artists in Hoisdorf Trailer (1983)

24 September 1983

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 residents a taste of Berlin’s avant-garde art.

Experiments in Terror Trailer (2003)

11 December 2003

A collection of short experimental horror films, some well-known, some not.

Coming Attractions Trailer (2010)

03 September 2010

A film woven around the idea that between early cinema and avant-garde film exists a connection.

The Exquisite Corpus Trailer (2015)

22 May 2015

The Exquisite Corpus is based on various erotic films and advertising rushes. Myriad fragments are melted into a single sensuous, humorous, gruesome, and ecstatic dream.

Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory) Trailer (1984)

01 January 1984

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.

Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years Trailer (2020)

20 May 2020

This 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.

Outer Space Trailer (1999)

24 September 1999

A young woman move towards a house that holds a potentially dangerous spirit that has been tormenting her.

The Arrival Trailer (1999)

20 October 1999

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.

Une certaine histoire du cinéma expérimental français Trailer (2019)

07 February 2019

Founded in the second half of the 1990s, the experimental film association L'Etna witnessed the transition from film to digital cinema.

Shot / Countershot Trailer (1987)

02 March 1987

Not a stage direction, but rather something very concrete is hidden behind the technical term. Somet�

Happy-End Trailer (2012)

21 July 2012

A found footage film about rituals, festive occasions and a married couple in a seeming frenzy of cosy togetherness.

Krung Thep Trailer (2026)

30 March 2026

Krung Thep is a dualistic journey between darkness and the dawn of a new day. The short film symbolizes the beginning of the conflicts between Thailand and Cambodia in 2025, a border dispute that displaced thousands of families and resulted in over a hundred deaths.

Peter Tscherkassky – Kino aus der Dunkelkammer Trailer (2014)

18 October 2014

In this documentary, Peter Tscherkassky talks about his work, and he demonstrates in the darkroom how his movies are made.

Train Again Trailer (2021)

13 July 2021

Peter Tscherkassky condenses the long history of railways in the movies into a rousing blast for the senses in a heartfelt tribute to another legend of experimental cinema Kurt Kren.

Nocturne Trailer (2006)

24 May 2006

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, according to his biographers (and his letters confirm this fact), was an extremely sensuous person, and Nachtstück (Nocturne) was intended to refer to this aspect of his personality: We glide into "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" a bit, then abandon standardized paths of conventional representational film and encounter a few seconds of passionate sensory filmæan example of something I would like to call "physical cinema.

Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine Trailer (2006)

01 January 2006

An attempt to transform a Roman Western into a Greek tragedy. The hero of Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine is easy to identify.

Get Ready Trailer (1999)

15 October 1999

A propulsively jittering journey through the cinematic imaginary using glitchy found footage and jacked-up cyber sounds, Get Ready hits the highway hard and takes us with it.