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Gartenberg Media Announces
PETER TSCHERKASSKY -
ATTRACTIONS, INSTRUCTIONS AND OTHER ROMANCES
Now Available on DVD for Institutional Sales
Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to announce the release of the latest publication from INDEX DVD, PETER TSCHERKASSKY - ATTRACTIONS, INSTRUCTIONS AND OTHER ROMANCE, now available on PAL DVD for institutional sales in North America. This new DVD compiles eight short films by Peter Tscherkassky, including the breathtaking, found-footage masterwork PARALLEL SPACE: INTER-VIEW (1992), as well as INSTRUCTIONS FOR A LIGHT AND SOUND MACHINE (2005), and COMING ATTRACTIONS (2010). Film critic Christoph Huber, whose essay accompanies this DVD publication, writes that "the persuasive power of the work stems from its conceptual clarity. Tscherkassky fathoms cinema's potential as an intellectual machinery of associations and as a palpable experiential space in a manner that is exhilarating and expansive." Together with the INDEX DVD publication PETER TSCHERKASSKY - FILMS FROM A DARK ROOM, this new release offers an exhilarating excursion into the radical cinema of Peter Tscherkassky.
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Peter Tscherkassky (b. 1958) is internationally renowned as one of the most significant artists working in the field of avant-garde cinema. His first encounter with avant-garde film was in 1978, when he attended a lecture series by P. Adams Sitney at the Vienna Filmmuseum. He began making films in 1979, and earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1986 with his dissertation, "Film As Art". His films and installations have been exhibited at major museums and festivals worldwide, including Cannes, the Louvre, Oberhausen, and Venice. Tscherkassky is also widely respected as a curator, professor, and author of critical essays and books on the art of cinema. In 1990, he co-founded sixpackfilms, the Vienna-based organization that publishes the INDEX DVD line.
Film scholar Tom Gunning has written of Peter Tscherkassky, that "while
engaged in a process of deconstruction, [he] also recognizes the power of cinema, utilizing its control over space and time, in order to uncover the energies of motion and story, of the violence inherent in both revolt and containment. As the materials of the moving image now undergo transformation, as the very term film perhaps become anachro-nistic, his films make clear that a radical cinema does not simply fetishize the material that filmmakers work with, but rather interrogates those materials and forms for the energies they contain and the meanings they can liberate, through the labor and processes which the maker and the viewer participate in. The future is still arriving, even as the past is constantly being restaged and reinvented within the dark rooms of motion pictures."
Parallel Space: Inter-View (1992)
Erotique (1982)
Happy-End (1996)
Shot - Countershot (1987)
Nachtstück (Mozart Minute 09) (2006)
Coming Attractions (2010)
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (2005)
Bonustrack: Ballett 16 (1984)
DVD-PAL - Region 0 /
No Regional Code.
Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling.
also available from GME
Films From A Dark Room
L'Arrivée (1997/98)
Outer Space (1999)
Dream Work (2002)
Manufraktur (1985)
Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de l´Usine Lumière à Lyon) (1984)
Get Ready (1999)
Bonustrack: Miniaturen - Viele Berliner Künstler in Hoisdorf (1983)
DVD-PAL - Region 0 /
No Regional Code.
Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling.
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Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0.
PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback.
These DVD and Blu-ray editions are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (US and Canada), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.
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