Sonic Cinema presents The Films of Peter Tscherkassky + Dirk Schaefer in conversation with Stanley Schtinter (purge.xxx)

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Celebrating the release of “Dirk Schaefer : Peter Tscherkassky, All the Soundtracks (2005–2021)” by purge.xxx, Sonic Cinema presents Peter Tscherkassky & Dirk Schaefer’s four collaborations to date: Train Again (2021); The Exquisite Corpus (2015); Coming Attractions (2010); Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (2005); as well as Tscherkassky’s classic of avant-garde cinema Outer Space (1999). All films will be projected in their original 35mm format.

The films of Peter Tscherkassky have played a central role in the international reawakening of interest in avant-garde film. At the turn from a photographic to a digital culture of moving images, his work follows in the footsteps of Austrian masters Kurt Kren, Peter Kubelka, and Ernst Schmidt Jr. to create a thrilling filmic language that engages psychoanalysis and semiotics whilst exploring the physicality of the medium and its potential to overwhelm both visually and sonically. Tscherkassky’s working method – painstakingly hand printing found-footage material frame-by-frame in the darkroom – gives his films a deeply materialist sensibility, yet through the flickering fragments they also maintain cinema’s ability to shock and thrill. Dirk Schaefer’s sound design, which is intrinsically coupled to Tscherkassky’s images, constantly surprises with its chopped speech, repetitive musical refrains, arrhythmic noises, progressive buzzing and deep silences.

Programmed by Oliver Dickens.

Oliver would like to thank Café OTO, the Austrian Cultural Forum LondonSixpackfilm and purge.xxx for their generous support for this programme.

Sonic Cinema is dedicated to the memory of Louis Benassi.

Running order:

- Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999, 10 min, 35mm)*
- Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (Peter Tscherkassky, 2005, 17 min, 35mm) **
- Coming Attractions (Peter Tscherkassky, 2010, 25’10 min, 35mm)**
- The Exquisite Corpus (Peter Tscherkassky, 2015, 19 min, 35mm) **
- Train Again (Peter Tscherkassky, 2021, 20 min, 35mm) **

*soundtrack by Peter Tscherkassky
**soundtrack by Dirk Schaefer

MORE INFO & TICKETS: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/sonic-cinema-presents-peter-tscherkassky/

Venue: 

Cafe Oto - London, United Kingdom

Dates: 

Sunday, October 24, 2021 - 19:30

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Dates: 

Sunday, October 24, 2021 - 19:30

Venue: 

  • 22 Ashwin Street
    Dalston
    E8 3DL   London, London
    United Kingdom
    51° 32' 48.66" N, 0° 4' 28.2432" W