Peter Tscherkassky

Peter Tscherkassky ( born October 3, 1958 in Vienna, Austria ) is an Austrian avant-garde film director.

Life and work

Tscherkassky visited the College Kalksburg in Vienna and then the BORG Mistelbach, where he graduated in 1977. He then studied journalism and political science at the University of Vienna. In 1978 he made ​​the first acquaintance with the avant-garde filmmaking, as he attended a five-day lecture series by P. Adams Sitney at the Austrian Film Museum. 1979 moved Tscherkassky temporarily to Berlin, where he began the study of philosophy. Later that year, he also earned a Super 8 equipment - a long time under experimental filmmakers very popular movie equipment. In December of that year he also started filming his first short film Crusaders, whose screenplay he had written. He began intensively with the avant-garde filmmaking in German-speaking employ and learned among other originating mainly from the Berlin area filmmakers Thomas pebbles, Frieder Butzmann, Reinhold spurs, Nils Krüger, Regina Baumgart, Gerti Fietzek, Thomas Kapielski, Rolf -Peter Baacke know. He regularly visited the cinema " Arsenal ", especially the weekly programs of the international avant-garde filmmaking.

In 1981, he met the Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Lisl Ponger, Dietmar Brehm and Ernst Schmidt Jr. know. In 1982 he was a founding member of the Austrian Filmmakers Cooperative ( which he left in 1993).

1984 Tscherkassky began with the presentation of the two-part program " Overview - Super -8 films from Austria " at the exhibition " Kometen.Folge.Lawinen.Orte " Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Berlin coach house with his curatorial work. End of this year he returned to Vienna, where he among others with Eva Schlegel, Heimo Zobernig, Gudrun Bielz, Helmut Rainer and Helmut Mark the " UFVA - Independent Film & Video Austria" founded.

Between 1985 and 1986 he wrote his dissertation on " Film Art: Toward a Critical Aesthetics of Cinematography " at the Institute of Philosophy in Vienna. In 1986, he earned his Ph.D. ..

From 1989 to 2002 he was a lecturer artistic filmmaking after at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz.

In 1993 and 1994 he was appointed Minister of Arts Rudolf Scholten as artistic director of the newly founded Austrian film festival, the diagonal. In 1993, he also designed the retrospective " morning light. Austrian avant-garde film of Kubelka until today " cinema in Berlin " Arsenal ". More curator orders were an already pre- or was followed.

2005 had his work Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine at the Cannes Film Festival in the series " Directors' Fortnight " world premiere.

Well-known films by the director are happy ending (1996) and Outer Space (1999), both of which were published in the Austrian movies The Austrian film on DVD. Another multi-award winning short film by director 's Dream Work ( 2002). Many of his films are distributed sixpackfilm the Austrian sales.

Filmography (selection)

Short directed, unless otherwise indicated.

Awards

For its activities:

For his film work:

  • 2010: International Film Festival of Venice: Orizzonti Short Film Award
  • 2011: Vienna Independent Shorts: Austrian Short Film Award
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