Peter Tscherkassky Movies

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...

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

One can determine a line in Tscherkassky’s oeuvre which turns around a game with filmic presentation, with degrees of recognisability —...

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

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...

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

Parallel 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...

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

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

A found footage film about rituals, festive occasions and a married couple in a seeming frenzy of cosy togetherness. We see the pair pouring drinks,...

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

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...

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