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.
Peter Tscherkassky Biography / Wiki
| Name | Peter Tscherkassky |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Vienna, Austria |
| Date of Birth | October 03, 1958 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 64 |
| Deathday |
Peter Tscherkassky Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Miniatures: Many Berlin Artists in Hoisdorf | (voice) | 1983-09-24 | 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-H… |
| Parallel Space: Inter-View | 1992-01-01 | 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 … | |
| Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3 | 1993-01-01 | 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… | |
| Une certaine histoire du cinéma expérimental français | Lui-même | 2019-02-07 | … |
| Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years | Himself | 2020-05-20 | This historical and analytical documentary draws attention to the background of the roots of “New Austrian Cinema” and presents Austria as a film coun… |
Peter Tscherkassky Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Outer Space | Director | 1999-01-01 | 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, … |
| Dream Work | Director | 2001-03-17 | 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 throug… |
| Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory) | Director | 1984-01-01 | 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…. |
| Experiments in Terror | Director | 2003-12-11 | A collection of short experimental horror films, some well-known, some not…. |
| Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine | Director | 2006-01-01 | An attempt to transform a Roman Western into a Greek tragedy…. |
| Miniatures: Many Berlin Artists in Hoisdorf | Director | 1983-09-24 | 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-H… |
| The Arrival | Director | 1999-10-20 | The first of Peter Tscherkassky’s Cinemascope trilogy of short films is a fragmented glimpse of images pulsating with chaotic rhythm as they fight whi… |
| Manufractur | Director | 1985-01-01 | 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… |
| Coming Attractions | Director | 2010-09-03 | A film woven around the idea that between early cinema and avant-garde film exists a connection…. |
| Happy-End | Director | 2012-07-21 | 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, c… |
| Shot / Countershot | Director | 1987-03-02 | Not a stage direction, but rather something very concrete is hidden behind the technical term. Something which betrays a little of the yearning for in… |
| Parallel Space: Inter-View | Director | 1992-01-01 | 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 … |
| Nocturne | Director | 2006-05-24 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, according to his biographers (and his letters confirm this fact), was an extremely sensuous person, and Nachtstück (Nocturne… |
| The Exquisite Corpus | Director | 2015-05-22 | The Exquisite Corpus is based on various erotic films and advertising rushes. Myriad fragments are melted into a single sensuous, humorous, gruesome, … |
| Erotique | Director | 1982-03-01 | One can determine a line in Tscherkassky’s oeuvre which turns around a game with filmic presentation, with degrees of recognisability — with the o… |
| Ballett 16 | Director | 1984-01-01 | 256 frame enlargements of a continuous dance movement were dissected into 16 segments, each consisting of 16 frames. These segments were rearranged an… |
| Film of Love | Director | 1982-01-01 | 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 show… |
| Tabula Rasa | Director | 1989-01-01 | 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 Christian Met… |
| Blood-Letting | Director | 1981-02-09 | 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 a pe… |
| Kelimba | Director | 1986-01-01 | Alternating between recognizable and abstract picture worlds, between theoretical reflection and lush sensuality is the main distinguishing characteri… |
| Holiday Film | Director | 1983-01-01 | A woman on a meadow, strolling around, narcisstically involved, wandering. Now and again one can see her breasts through her half-opened shirt. The ca… |
| Freeze Frame | Director | 1983-01-01 | Freeze Frame is an example of a filmic significator from which the transparency and invisibility has been removed. Material which has been repeatedly … |
| The Mozart Minute | Director | 2006-01-25 | Twenty-eight well-known filmmakers living and working in Austria were invited by WIENER MOZARTJAHR 2006, to produce associative miniatures on Mozart. … |
| Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3 | Director | 1993-01-01 | 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… |
| Get Ready | Director | 1999-01-01 | Beach afternoon; run away at full speed. Official trailer of the International Film Festival Viennale 1999…. |
| Daniel Paul Schrebers Stimmvisionen and Schizo-Schreber | Director | 1987-01-01 | (for Ernst Schmidt jrs. trilogy Memories of a Nervous Illness, part 1 & part 2) 1987/88, 16mm (S 8 blow up), á 4 min, colour & b/w… |
| Train Again | Director | 2021-07-13 | 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 afte… |
| Memoirs of My Nervous Illness | Director | 1993-01-01 | 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… |
Peter Tscherkassky Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Outer Space | Producer | 1999-01-01 | 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, … |
| Manufractur | Producer | 1985-01-01 | 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… |
| The Arrival | Producer | 1999-10-20 | The first of Peter Tscherkassky’s Cinemascope trilogy of short films is a fragmented glimpse of images pulsating with chaotic rhythm as they fight whi… |
| Blood-Letting | Producer | 1981-02-09 | 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 a pe… |
| Train Again | Producer | 2021-07-13 | 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 afte… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Coming Attractions | Writer | 2010-09-03 | A film woven around the idea that between early cinema and avant-garde film exists a connection…. |
| Outer Space | Writer | 1999-01-01 | 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, … |
| The Arrival | Writer | 1999-10-20 | The first of Peter Tscherkassky’s Cinemascope trilogy of short films is a fragmented glimpse of images pulsating with chaotic rhythm as they fight whi… |
| Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory) | Writer | 1984-01-01 | 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…. |
| Train Again | Writer | 2021-07-13 | 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 afte… |
Sound
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Parallel Space: Inter-View | Sound Designer | 1992-01-01 | 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 … |
| Outer Space | Sound | 1999-01-01 | 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, … |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 2 | Art Designer | 1988-01-01 | 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… |
| Manufractur | Director of Photography | 1985-01-01 | 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… |
| The Arrival | Director of Photography | 1999-10-20 | The first of Peter Tscherkassky’s Cinemascope trilogy of short films is a fragmented glimpse of images pulsating with chaotic rhythm as they fight whi… |
| Outer Space | Director of Photography | 1999-01-01 | 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, … |
| Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3 | Director of Photography | 1993-01-01 | 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… |
| Miniatures: Many Berlin Artists in Hoisdorf | Director of Photography | 1983-09-24 | 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-H… |
| Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory) | Director of Photography | 1984-01-01 | 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…. |
| Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine | Editor | 2006-01-01 | An attempt to transform a Roman Western into a Greek tragedy…. |
| The Exquisite Corpus | Editor | 2015-05-22 | The Exquisite Corpus is based on various erotic films and advertising rushes. Myriad fragments are melted into a single sensuous, humorous, gruesome, … |
| Outer Space | Editor | 1999-01-01 | 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, … |
| Coming Attractions | Editor | 2010-09-03 | A film woven around the idea that between early cinema and avant-garde film exists a connection…. |
| Miniatures: Many Berlin Artists in Hoisdorf | Editor | 1983-09-24 | 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-H… |
| Train Again | Editor | 2021-07-13 | 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 afte… |
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