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This program features a stunning collection of Tscherkassky's 16mm and 35mm films, including the masterful CinemaScope trilogy.
Peter Tscherkassky will be in attendance at the screening.
Films screen courtesy of sixpack film
Freeze Frame
Peter Tscherkassky, 9 mins, 1983, 16mm (S-8 blow up), Col/B&W, Sound
A cacophony of horns, alarms and multiple images that freezes and hence burns in the projector gate. Originally presented as a live performance in 1983 under the title The End of Film History.
kelimba
Peter Tscherkassky, 10 mins, 1986, 16mm (S-8 blow up), Col/B&W, Sound
Images fall in and out of abstraction and fluctuate to the rhythms of Greek folk music, creating an exotic dance on the screen.
tabula rasa
Peter Tscherkassky, 17mins, 1987/89, 16mm (S-8 blow up), Col/B&W, Sound
A cinematic commentary upon the psychoanalytic film theory of Christian Metz is played out through a series of rear and multiple projections whereby the fetishized object is obscured to the point of inexistence.
Shot-Countershot
Peter Tscherkassky, 22 sec, 1987, 16mm (S-8 blow up), B&W, silent
An ironical commentary on Christian Metz's attempt to formalize the language of film, exploiting an instant of a Hollywood Western. Eureka: “I was swimming in a pool, suddenly it went 'Bang!' and there was the finished film in my mind's eye.”
Happy-End
Peter Tscherkassky, 11 mins, 1996, 35mm (S-8 blow up), Col/B&W, Sound
Home movies of a married couple combining their love of life and film were discarded in a junk shop to be lovingly resurrected and reworked by Tscherkassky in celebration of the centenary of cinema.
Nachtstück (Nocturne)
Peter Tscherkassky, 1 min, 2006, 35mm, B&W, Sound
This commissioned tribute to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart abandons standardized paths of traditional representation playfully disrupts a beloved tune, launching us into a physical experience of cinema.
L'Arrivée
Peter Tscherkassky, 2 mins, 1997/98, 35mm CinemaScope, B&W, Sound
Tscherkassky's first foray into CinemaScope pays homage to his cinematic forebears with a frenetic remake of the Lumière film, L'Arrivee d'un train a La Ciotat (starring no other than Catherine Deneuve).
Outer Space
Peter Tscherkassky, 10 mins, 1999, 35mm CinemaScope, B&W, Sound
The calm suburban exterior of a 1980's B-picture is shattered into an exhilarating cinematic maelstrom in this undisputed classic in Tscherkassky's oeuvre. A film that must been seen to be believed and then seen again and again!
Dream Work
Peter Tscherkassky, 11 mins, 2001, 35mm CinemaScope, B&W, Sound
The final film in the magnificent CinemaScope trilogy, made "in appreciation of the cinematic art of Man Ray", is derived from the same source material as Outer Space but transports us to a multifaceted land of dreams.
