SHORT FILMS BY TSCHERKASSKY PETER

SHORT FILMS BY TSCHERKASSKY PETER

Reduced to two minutes L'Arrivée gives a brief, but exact summary of what cinematography (after its arrival with Lumiéres train) has made into an enduring presence of our visual enviroment: violence, emotions. Or, as an anonymous american housewife (cited by T. W. Adorno) used to describe Hollywood's version of life: "Getting into trouble and out of it again."

It appears as if the film with the depicted train has to work its way across the screen with a great deal of effort. It literally shivers its way into the picture as if it had been incorrectly fed into the projector and was forced to do a dance in order to be seen properly. Even viewers well-versed in avant-garde film are subjected to a few minutes of distraction and breathless expectation. And not because narrative cinema has been subverted for the umpteenth time, but because a sensual experience of delayed perception really is on offer here. A storm of material follows and then Catherine Deneuve descends from the train and falls in to the embrace of an approaching man. L’Arrivée is an apparently simple experience, and perhaps more exciting, sensual and intellectual because of that simplicity.

AUSTRIA/FRANCE

L' Arrivee 1997/8 2'9'',
Outer space 1999 10'
Dream Work 2002 11'
total duration : 33'

Experimental, Short Films

TSCHERKASSKY PETER

P.O.E.T. Picture

N/A

VHS

CHOD0204