Peter Tscherkassky

Biography

Peter Tscherkassky is an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker who currently works exclusively with found footage. All of his work is done with film and heavily edited in the darkroom, rather than relying on technological modes. Tscherkassky not only presents beautiful and haunting images, but also forces the audience to rethink the traditional conception of film and film narrative.

Directed

1. Outer Space (1999) — Director
2. Dream Work (2001) — Director
3. The Arrival (1999) — Director
4. Manufractur (1985) — Director
5. Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (2006) — Director
6. The Exquisite Corpus (2015) — Director
7. Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory) (1984) — Director
8. Train Again (2021) — Director
9. Shot / Countershot (1987) — Director
10. Erotique (1982) — Director
11. Tabula Rasa (1989) — Director
12. Coming Attractions (2010) — Director
13. Miniatures: Many Berlin Artists in Hoisdorf (1983) — Director
14. Happy-End (2012) — Director
15. Nocturne (2006) — Director
16. Film of Love (1982) — Director
17. Parallel Space: Inter-View (1994) — Director
18. Blood-Letting (1981) — Director
19. Holiday Film (1983) — Director
20. Ballett 16 (1984) — Director
21. Kelimba (1986) — Director
22. Get Ready (1999) — Director
23. Experiments in Terror (2003) — Director
24. Freeze Frame (1983) — Director
25. The Mozart Minute (2006) — Director
26. Daniel Paul Schrebers Stimmvisionen and Schizo-Schreber (1987) — Director
27. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1993) — Director
28. 20 Little Films (2012) — Director
29. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3 (1993) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Miniatures: Many Berlin Artists in Hoisdorf (1983) — (voice)
2. Parallel Space: Inter-View (1994)
3. Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years (2020) — Himself
4. Peter Tscherkassky – Kino aus der Dunkelkammer (2014) — Self
5. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 3 (1993)
6. Une certaine histoire du cinéma expérimental français (2019) — Lui-même