The Festival in association with Cork Film Centre is delighted to welcome the award winning Austrian filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky to Cork. This leading figure in avant-garde cinema works exclusively with found footage, physically manipulating and reconfiguring film to break down existing cinematic boundaries and construct new narratives and create exciting new possibilities. His films bristle with a punk energy as they rage against the proliferation of new technological advances. It would be no misnomer to describe Tscherkassky as a poet of the darkroom. His own comment on his CinemaScope Trilogy of L’Arrivée, Outer Space and Dream Work offer a compelling insight on his methodology:
The formal element binding the trilogy is the specific technique of contact printing, by which found film footage is copied by hand and frame by frame onto unexposed film stock. Through this, I am able, in a literal sense, to realize the central mechanism by which dreams produce meaning, the “dream work,” as Sigmund Freud described it: displacement [Verschiebung] and condensation [Verdichtung]. The new interpretation of the text of the original source material takes place through its “displacement” from its original context and its concurrent ‘condensation’ by means of multiple exposure.
He is also the founder of the renowned film distribution company Sixpack Film, an organisation we hold in the highest regard, and has organized several international avant-garde film festivals in Vienna and film tours abroad. During 1993 and 1994 he was the artistic director of the annual Austrian film festival Diagonale. He has published numerously and lectured extensively on the history and theory of avant-garde film, as well as editor, with Gabriele Jutz, of the book Peter Kubelka (1995).We are delighted to welcome him to Cork to present his work and deliver what is sure to be a thought-provoking and pertinent masterclass
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Thu 05 Nov | 9:00pm | Kino Cinema
Peter Tscherkassky Programme
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Strictly Handmade: Masterclass with Peter Tscherkassky
