[Musterrolle: a compilation of short films by Peter Tscherkassky]

Austria, 1981-1999

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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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director

Peter Tscherkassky

creator

Peter Tscherkassky

Duration

01:54:00:00

Production places
Austria
Production dates
1981-1999

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ACMI Identifier

B1000562

Languages

English

French

German

Holdings

VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded

Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master

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