The Films of PETER TSCHERKASSKY

THE FILMS OF PETER TSCHERKASSKY

"While engaged in a process of deconstruction, Peter Tscherkassky 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 anachronistic, 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."

– Tom Gunning

GME distributes DVD editions of the following Peter Tscherkassky films:

PETER TSCHERKASSKY: EXQUISITE ECSTASIES

Peter Tscherkassky (Austria)

Approaching the Exquisite Corpus' was an alternative title we considered for this DVD release. It would have indicated how the films introduced here from my early Super 8 phase already evidence an artistically consistent path leading to my most recent production to date. THE EXQUISITE CORPUS, and highlighted my endeavor since the 1980s to make the specific qualities of the analog film medium sensuously tangible in the form of "exquisite ecstasies".

PETER TSCHERKASSKY: FILMS FROM A DARK ROOM

Peter Tscherkassky (Austria)

A confrontation with the codes of narrative-representational cinema is one of Peter Tscherkassky´s constant concerns. If one attempts to distill a constant from his films, then this must surely be the oscillation between the abstract and the concrete, between the dry and the sensual, which is the source of energy of his work.