15 titles create this retrospective of experimental shorts by Austrian filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky. Titles date from 1981 through to the 1999 trailer for the Viennese Film Festival - Viennale. The films work through an experimentation with dissolves, double exposures, the ambiguity of light, found footage and the looping of vision and sound. Sound features heavily in Tscherkassky’s work and the principal composer here is Armin Schminkl. Schminkl also features as a subject for several films in the retrospective. Titles are as follows: Outerspace; The Arrival (L’Arrivee); Happy End; Parallel Space: interview; Tabula Rasa; Shot-Countershot; Kelimba; Manufraktur; Motion Picture; Urlaubsfilm; Freeze Frame; Liebesfilm; Erotique; Aderlab; Get Ready - Viennale ‘99 Trailer.
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ACMI Identifier
B1000562
Languages
English
French
German
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Advertising
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VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master