Peter Tscherkassky — Director (12)
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Liebesfilm (1982) [Movie] Douban TMDB
Liebesfilm
director: Peter Tscherkassky actor: Ingrid Ruisz / Daniel Hirtz
other title: 爱情电影 / Film of Love
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. But the kiss never takes place, merely the speed of the movement is continually increased. This excessive repetition of the theme destroys the "happy clarity" that inhabits "the film kiss" myth.
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The Arrival (1999) [Movie] Douban TMDB
Arrivée, L'
director: Peter Tscherkassky
other title: 到站 / Arrivée, L' …
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 frames being split by white margin and trying to reassemble again like the poles of a magnet, a train approaching station and colliding with itself in white-hot blistering chaos.
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Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory) (1984) [Movie] Douban TMDB
Motion Picture (La sortie des ouvriers de l'usine Lumière à Lyon)
director: Peter Tscherkassky
other title: Motion Picture (La sortie des ouvriers de l'usine Lumière à Lyon)
In the darkroom, 50 unexposed film strips were laid across a surface, upon which a frame of La sortie des ouvriers de l’usine Lumière was projected to create a new kind of film…
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Manufraktur (1985) [Movie] Douban TMDB
Manufraktur
director: Peter Tscherkassky
other title: 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, discharged from all semantic burden. What remains is a self-sufficient swarm of splinters, fleeting vectors of lost direction, furrowed with the traces of the manual process of production.