Peter Tscherkassky

Peter Tscherkassky

Cannes

CANNES – QUINCENA DE REALIZADORES 2021: TRAIN AGAIN DE PETER TSCHERKASSKY

Por José Sarmiento

La última obra maestra de Peter Tscherkassky, Train Again (2021), es una magnífica obra de síntesis: de la historia del cine, del cine como espectáculo, de la ansiedad de la industrialización, de la revelación del aparato cinematográfico, de las posibilidades y expansión del cine estructural. Dedicado a su buen amigo y extraordinario cineasta estructural, Kurt Kren, Tscherkassky comparte los mismos impulsos del trabajo que está homenajeando.

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Cannes

CANNES – QUINZAINE DES RÉALISATEURS 2021: TRAIN AGAIN BY PETER TSCHERKASSKY

By José Sarmiento

Peter Tscherkassky’s latest masterpiece Train Again (2021) is a magnificent work of synthesis: of the history of cinema, of cinema as a spectacle, of the anxiety of industrialization, of the unveiling of cinema apparatus, of the possibilities and expansion of structural cinema. Dedicated to his good friend and structural filmmaker extraordinaire, Kurt Kren, Tscherkassky shares the same impulses of the work he’s homaging.

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Al Este de Lima

A CONVERSATION WITH PETER TSCHERKASSKY AND EVE HELLER

By Mónica Delgado, José Sarmiento Hinojosa, Ivonne Sheen

In the framework of their last masterclass in Lima, in the context of Al Este de Lima Film Festival, some of us Desistfilmers had a chance to enjoy lunch and a nice conversation with Austrian film maverick Peter Tscherkassky and American avant-garde filmmaker Eve Heller, one of the most talented couples in the experimental film world working today. In a relaxed friendly meeting, we talked about their work, their ideas on cinema and other things regarding the current status of the film universe.

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Cannes

CANNES 2015: THE EXQUISITE CORPUS DE PETER TSCHERKASSKY

Por Mónica Delgado

Presentada dentro del programa de cortos de la Quincena de Realizadores, The Exquisite Corpus sigue la misma línea de experimentación de los anteriores trabajos de Peter Tscherkassky, sobre todo aquellos que buscan indagar en la naturaleza de la representación de lo femenino en el cine desde el footage y la intervención del soporte.

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Main Articles

TSCHERKASSKY, ROBINSON, OREILLY: THREE PERSPECTIVES ON MEDIUM AND ITS MEANINGS

By Alejandro Bachmann and Daniel Fitzpatrick

Three domestic scenes tie together three seemingly diverse films. In the first, from Peter Tscherkassky’s 1999 found-footage masterpiece Outer Space, a woman (Barbara Hershey) walks alone, we see her entering a building, presumably her home. In the second, Michael Robinson’s Light is Waiting (2007), two sisters argue (in footage pulled from an episode of the US sitcom Full House), they are discussing what to watch, the evening news or the Top 40 countdown. In both instances, both scenes, these characters will encounter and be impacted upon by external forces, the security of their diegetic worlds invaded by non-diegetic elements usually kept under wraps. In both of these cases, we witness a striking and disturbing folding in of inner and outer space and, in each case, we are brought face to face with the nature of a medium while simultaneously experiencing its undoing, its destructive collapse.

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Artículos

PETER TSCHERKASSKY: LA EROTIZACIÓN DE LOS CUERPOS

Por Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Uno de los grandes escultores que han de transformar a los faunos es el cineasta austríaco Peter Tscherkassky. Sus filmes se conciben desde el “acto de hacer”, es decir, sus manos son las que elaboran la composición visual-sonora de cada fotograma y es por ese motivo que, a modo de leit motiv, sus manos aparecen en casi todos ellos, sea en formato Súper 8 o CinemaScope.

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