Peter Tscherkassky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, according to his biographers (and his letters confirm this fact), was an extremely sensuous person, and Nachtstück ...

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

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. Walking ...

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 ...

A propulsively jittering journey through the cinematic imaginary using glitchy found footage and jacked-up cyber sounds, Get Ready hits the ...

A young woman move towards a house that holds a potentially dangerous spirit that has been tormenting her. The woman tries to fight against the ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Alternating between recognizable and abstract picture worlds, between theoretical reflection and lush sensuality is the main distinguishing ...

A tangled network woven with tiny particles of movements broken out of found footage and compiled anew: the elements of the “to the left, ...

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

In the darkroom, 50 unexposed film strips were laid across a surface, upon which a frame of “La sortie des ouvrier de l’usine ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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