Using found footage from 1982 bmovie the entity, the film tells a loose story about a woman being terrorized by a supernatural being. Full version of outer space by austrian avantgarde filmmaker peter tscherkassky in high quality. Aesthetics of decay and horror in found footage films. Although the album version transformed from the debut, the atmosphere, the flickering of light and the mystery of outer space is still present in the piece. Away from the red carpet, over at the quinzaine, austrian celluloid mixmaster peter tscherkassky debuted the exquisite corpus, a new short film dedicated to the oneiric ecstasies of softcore cinema that put to shame just about every film at the festival with any pretense of the horny or erotic. The violence of outer space comes from cinemas energies and what tscherkassky s film makes visible is the visibility of cinema itself. With its dedication to man ray and luminous rayographs, peter tscherkassky s dream work 2001 makes its debt to surrealist film explicit. Outer space is a 10minute blackandwhite short film written and directed by austrian filmmaker peter tscherkassky 17 years ago.
A gift from peter tscherkassky and index edition outer. This interview between the filmmaker and notebook editor daniel kasman, which followed the films 2015 premiere in cannes at the directors fortnight, has been reposted from cinema scope 63 summer 2015, with the kind permission of mark peranson. Instructions for a light and sound machine 2005 35mm. Dreamwork by peter tscherkassky is part of index edition 008 which you can stream or download. The skinny short film award family shorts short stuff.
Outer space is, however, only one work in tscherkassky s overall output. Based on a short film by peter tscherkassky you can watch the film here. Outer space is a film that definitely lives up to its title, for it really is out of this world. Tscherkassky can seem to turn the violent force of disjointed narrative and avantgarde aesthetic into a villain of sorts. It concerns an attractive young girl entering a suburban house at night, walking tentatively down corridors while the lights flicker and pulse all around her. Mubi is presenting the global online premiere of peter tscherkassky s short film, the exquisite corpus, running june 11 july 10, 2016. Outer space by austrian avantgarde filmmaker peter tscherkassky in full length and high quality. Outer space 2018, for video, 4 performers, and electronics. Outer space peter tscherkassky, 1999 the apparatus becomes inverted in peter tsscherkaskys 1999 experimental short. Outer space agitates this construction, which is prototypical for gender hierarchies and classic cinemas viewing regime, and allows the protagonist to turn them upside down. Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers and play it loud. It stars barbara hershey briefly after her oscar nomination and she is the only actress in here. Film history in the making film historiography, digitised archives and. Watch index edition 008 peter tscherkassky films from a.
It appears as if the film with the depicted train has to work its way across the screen with a. Outer space peter tscherkassky dream work peter tacherkassky alone, life wastes andy hardy martin arnold dog star man stan brakhage the dante quartet stan brakhage mothlight stan brakhage as i was moving ahead occasionally i saw brief glimpses of beauty jonas mekas wavelength michael snow nostalgia hollis frampton twin peaks. If one attempts to distill a constant from his films, then this must surely be the oscillation between the abstract and the concrete, between the dry and the sensual, which is the source of energy of his work. Vicky harris, valeria christodoulidou, paschalis tsarouhas. What do you think are the truly great experimental avant. In your most recent project, the last pictures are encrypted into a disk made of a material that will last for billions of years. I came across outer space by peter tscherkassky on an other cinema dvd a few years ago. Radian premiered an early incarnation of on dark silent off alongside the 35mm live film. Outer space is no longer the parallel space of the avantgarde, says horwath metacritically, but in fact the world space of cinema. Watch dreamwork and other films by peter tscherkassky on. Glasgow short film festival 2016 catalogue by matt lloyd issuu. A skype conversation with trevor paglen, about images, time and artistic research. From now on outer space by peter tscherkassky will be permanently available on our youtube channel in full length and high quality. Its catalog proposes 2000 references and a careful and international selection of classic books and reprints, together with rare books and limited editions.
It is the most recent work of a filmmaker at the forefront of avantgarde film practice. Throughout the past five decades, one of the purposes of the. Larrivee from peter tscherkassky is difficult to grasp and describe but exciting. Trailer music for viennale 1999 get ready produced by peter tscherkassky. This essay examines how the found footage films of martin arnold alone. If downloading is available, you can download the video to two locations. Footage from the entity 1980 is edited into an abstract nightmare. As a matter of fact, if i were to name any film i have ever seen that most closely resembles what space aliens likely consume for entertainment on a daily basis, i would easily pick this film.
Outer space is together with larrivee 19971998 and dreamwork 2001 part of tscherkasskys cinemascope trilogy, which. Peter tscherkassky and the exquisite corpus by daniel kasman. It appears as if the film with the depicted train has to work its way across the screen with a great deal of effort. Outer space 1999 clermontferrand international short film festival. Radian premiered an early incarnation of on dark silent off alongside the 35mm live film projection, at the vienna international film festival, in the beautiful, historic theatre gartenbau. Le bal books is a bookshop specialized in photobooks, with contemporary, selfpublished, outofprint rare books. Everything is felt through the physical medium of film. Lab competition instructions for a light and sound machine 2005. Life wastes andy hardy, 1998 and peter tscherkassky outer space, 1999 and dream work, 2002 can be read as a belated. Both dream work and an earlier film, outer space 1999, rework footage taken from the 1981 sidney furie film, the entity, in which barbara hershey plays a woman who is terrorized by an unknown and invisible entity. This enables you to watch the video without an internet connection. The question of belly or brain is one which tscherkassky stopped asking long ago for ultimately sobriety is the route to ecstasy. I did video projections for a show in nyc for a band called the faint and i showed a part of outer space and so many people were coming up to me asking what it was. Closeup closeup on peter tscherkassky and eve heller.
Furie, 1982 where the protagonist carla moran barbara hershey is assaulted by. The title piece on dark silent off was inspired by austrian filmmaker peter tscherkassky s outer space, masterful black and white collage created of found footage of a horror film. Peter tscherkassky born october 3, 1958 is an austrian avantgarde filmmaker who works primarily with found footage. Feel free to share ideally with a reference to our vimeo channel. Peter tscherkassky peter tscherkassky to view with netscape 4. This programme also presents the uk premiere of the exquisite corpus. The first entry is a blackandwhite film called outer space by the director peter tscherkassky.
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