Peter Tscherkassky Movies

A young woman move towards a house that holds a potentially dangerous spirit that has been tormenting her. The woman tries to fight against the film...

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...

The first of Peter Tscherkassky's Cinemascope trilogy of short films is a fragmented glimpse of images pulsating with chaotic rhythm as they fight...

A film woven around the idea that between early cinema and avant-garde film exists a connection.

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...

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 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...

An attempt to transform a Roman Western into a Greek tragedy.

Peter Tscherkassky condenses the long history of railways in the movies into a rousing blast for the senses in a heartfelt tribute to another legend...

A woman on a meadow, strolling around, narcisstically involved, wandering. Now and again one can see her breasts through her half-opened shirt. The...

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 Exquisite Corpus is based on various erotic films and advertising rushes. Myriad fragments are melted into a single sensuous, humorous, gruesome,...

One can determine a line in Tscherkassky’s oeuvre which turns around a game with filmic presentation, with degrees of recognisability —...

This historical and analytical documentary draws attention to the background of the roots of "New Austrian Cinema" and presents Austria as a film...

Twenty-eight well-known filmmakers living and working in Austria were invited by WIENER MOZARTJAHR 2006, to produce associative miniatures on Mozart....

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...

A collection of short experimental horror films, some well-known, some not.

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,...

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...

Freeze Frame is an example of a filmic significator from which the transparency and invisibility has been removed. Material which has been repeatedly...