Peter Tscherkassky

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Peter Tscherkassky

Born on Friday, October 3, 1958 in Vienna.
1965 - 1969 attended Primary School in Mistelbach.
1969 - 1975 Jesuit boarding school (Vienna).
1975 - 1977 BORG (high school) Mistelbach; graduated June 1977.
1977 - 1979 studied journalism and political science
at the University of Vienna.
January 1978 attended a five-day lecture series by P. Adams Sitney at
the Austrian Film Museum – the first encounter with avant-garde film.
beginning October 1979 second residence in Berlin; began studying philosophy at the Free University Berlin and at the University of Vienna.
November 1979 acquired Super-8 equipment.
December 1979 script and start of the shooting of Kreuzritter. In subsequent years, regular visits to the cinema “Arsenal“, especially the weekly program, usually compiled by Alf Bold, on international avant-garde filmmaking. At the same time, active interest in music of the 20th century (John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Witold Lutoslawski, Dieter Schnebel, György Ligeti, Krzysztof Penderecki, John Zorn and many others), and especially in contemporary electronic music (Luc Ferrari, Pierre Henry, Bernard Parmegiani, Jean Schwarz, François Bayle, Michel Chion, Jacques Lejeune, Ivo Malec and many others).
1981 meets Lisl Ponger, Dietmar Brehm and Ernst Schmidt Jr.
1982 founding member of the newly constituted Austria Filmmakers Cooperative. Resigned 1993.
1984 start of curatorial work with presentation of the two-part program “überBlick – Super-8-Filme aus Österreich” at Kutscherhaus, Berlin.
From 1987 - 1991 P.T. curated programs and retrospectives of Austrian avant-garde film in Berlin, Lucerne, Lisbon, Karlsruhe, Skövde (Sweden), Hannover, Strasbourg, Budapest, Warsaw and Kremsir (CSFR).
late Juli 1984 return to Vienna.
1984 founding member of the “UFVA – Unabhängiger Film & Video Austria” with Eva Schlegel, Heimo Zobernig, Helmut Mark, Gudrun Bielz, Helmut Rainer and others.
1985 and 1986 work on the dissertation “Film + Art: Toward a Critical Aesthetics of Cinematography” at the Institute of Philosophy, Vienna.
1986 awarded PhD in philosophy.
1986 meets Martin Arnold.
1988 meets Kurt Kren.
1988 conception and curator of the festival “The Light of Periphery – Austrian Avant-Garde Film 1957–1988” at the Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna.
1989 Film Promotion Award given by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts.
1989 represents Austria at the Algiers Biennial.
1989 - 2002 teaches artistic filmmaking at the University of Artistic
and Industrial Design, Linz.
1990 conception and curator of the symposium and festival “Im Off der Geschichte” at the Stadtkino Wien (avant-garde films from the UK, Germany and Austria; together with Martin Arnold).
1991 conception and curator of the nine-day festival “Found Footage – Filme aus gefundenem Material” (together with Brigitta Burger-Utzer) at the Stadtkino, with catalogue. Sixpack Film is founded as an organizing institution for this event. Subsequently Sixpack Film is developed as an organization for the distribution and dissemination of non-commercial Austrian films, becoming an institution that remains internationally exemplary to this day.
1992 conception and curator of the festival “Unknown Territories – The American Independent Film” at the Stadtkino (together with Martin Arnold and Alexander Horwath; organized by Sixpack Film).
1992 appointed artistic director of the newly founded festival of
Austrian film, the “Diagonale“, for 1993 and 1994 by the Minister
for the Arts, Dr. Rudolf Scholten.
1993 conception and curator of the retrospective “Austrian Avant-Garde Film from Kubelka to the Present“ in Berlin.
1993 conception and curator of the film tour “En el Frente de las Imágines. Cine de Vanguardia en Austria” (5 programs; tour through Spain).
1993 meets Peter Kubelka.
1993 and 1994 artistic director of the “Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Film” in Salzburg.
1995 editor of the book “Peter Kubelka” (together with Gabriele Jutz). 1996 Austrian National Award for the Art of Film.
1996 conception and curator of the symposium and festival “The Modernist Vision” (organized by Sixpack Film). since 1996 second residence in Enzersfeld (Lower Austria).
1997 a darkroom and working studio – the so-called “Manufraktur” – is set up at the house in Enzersfeld. Starts to work on the CinemaScope trilogy. since summer semester 1998 teaches “Audiovisual Communication/ Film” at the University of Applied Art, Vienna, masterclass for Advertising and Graphics.
1998 conception and curator of the film tour “Cinematography as Art:
On the Image Front” (4 programs; with accompanying lectures by Gabriele Jutz).
September 2001 conclusion of the CinemaScope trilogy.
2002 conception and curator of the symposium and festival “Early Cinema and the Avant-Garde” at the Stadtkino (together with Gabriele Jutz; organized by Sixpack Film).
May 2002 the CinemaScope trilogy is presented at the
Cannes Film Festival in the series “Quinzaine des réalisateurs”.
2003 Award of Appreciation for the Art of Film given by the Federal Province of Lower Austria.
2003 - 2004 ongoing work in the darkroom on
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine.May 2005 world premiere of Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine at the Cannes Film Festival in the series“Quinzaine des réalisateurs”.
October 2005 book launch of Peter Tscherkassky (ed. A. Horwath, M. Loebenstein) at the Austrian Film Museum.
2006 production of Nachtstück (Nocturne), a film commissioned on the occasion of Mozart’s 250th birthday.
July 2006 first one-person exhibition of “Light Boxes”, each displaying film strips of a 90-second sequence, concurrently playing as a DVD loop (L’Arrivée, Outer Space, Dream Work, Instructions): FRAME BY FRAME at the Gallery SOLAR (Vila do Conde, Portugal; with Waterfall by Apichatpong Weerasethakul).
Group exhibitions:
RISS/LÜCKE/SCHARNIER A – Galerie nächst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna.
The Expanded Eye. Sehen – entgrenzt und verflüssigt – Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland.
25TH VIPER International Festival for Film, Video and New Media – Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland.
MozArt – MMK Museum Moderner Kunst – Stiftung Wörlen, Passau, Germany.
2007 presentation of the film Outer Space at “documenta 12”, Kassel, Germany.
June 2007 marriage with American filmmaker Eve Heller.
One-person exhibition:
Frame by Frame – Grand Parade, University of Brighton, Great Britain.
Group exhibitions:
Borderline Behaviour – Drawn Towards Animation – Tent, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Rencontres Audiovisuelles – Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France.
Final Cut – European Media Art Festival – Media Art and Cinema – Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück, Germany.
Pervasive Animation – Tate Modern, London, Great Britain.
Don't torture the rotten duckling – INOVA – Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
2008 commences darkroom work on the film Coming Attractions.
May 2008 lecture at the Louvre, Paris, accompanied by world premiere of the original 35mm version of Parallel Space: Inter-View (1992).
One-person exhibition:
From a Dark Room – Galerie nächst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna.
Group exhibitions:
UN COUP DE DÉS – Generali Foundation, Vienna.
Vor- und Nachbilder – Gallery Maerz, Linz.
Zeitraumzeit – Künstlerhaus k/haus, Vienna.
L'éternel retour 1 : La Méduse – La Salle de bains, Lyon, France.
2009 ongoing darkroom work on Coming Attractions.
Group exhibitions:
The Kaleidoscopic Eye – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
V.O.S.T. OV/OT – iMAL (interactive Media Art Laboratory), Brussels, Belgium.
2010 world premiere of Coming Attractions at the 67th Venice Film Festival; awarded Premio Orizzonti for Best Short Film – 67th Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica, Venecia.
Group Exhibition:
It Must Be Your Sexy Way – AKI Gallery, Taipeh, Taiwan.
2010–2012 ongoing work as editor on the English language book Film Unframed. A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema.
February 2012 Presentation of the book From a Dark Room. The Manufractured Cinema of Peter Tscherkassky/Desde el cuarto oscuro. El cine manufracturado de Peter Tscherkassky [English/Spanish]. Ed.: Maximiliano Cruz & Sandra Gómez. Mexico City: Interior 13, 2012.
March 2012 Presentation of the book Film Unframed. A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema. Ed.: Peter Tscherkassky.
February 2013 Release of the DVD Attractions, Instructions, and Other Romances (label “Index”, Vienna).
May 2015 world premiere of The Exquisite Corpus at the Cannes Film Festival in the series “Quinzaine des réalisateurs”

Translation: Eve Heller

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.		Bibliography Peter Tscherkassky

		Born on Friday, October 3, 1958 in Vienna. 1965 - 1969 attended Primary School in Mistelbach. 1969 - 1975 Jesuit boarding school (Vienna). 1975 - 1977 BORG (high school) Mistelbach; graduated June 1977. 1977 - 1979 studied journalism and political science at the University of Vienna. January 1978 attended a five-day lecture series by P. Adams Sitney at the Austrian Film Museum – the first encounter with avant-garde film. beginning October 1979 second residence in Berlin; began studying philosophy at the Free University Berlin and at the University of Vienna. November 1979 acquired Super-8 equipment. December 1979 script and start of the shooting of Kreuzritter. In subsequent years, regular visits to the cinema “Arsenal“, especially the weekly program, usually compiled by Alf Bold, on international avant-garde filmmaking. At the same time, active interest in music of the 20th century (John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Witold Lutoslawski, Dieter Schnebel, György Ligeti, Krzysztof Penderecki, John Zorn and many others), and especially in contemporary electronic music (Luc Ferrari, Pierre Henry, Bernard Parmegiani, Jean Schwarz, François Bayle, Michel Chion, Jacques Lejeune, Ivo Malec and many others). 1981 meets Lisl Ponger, Dietmar Brehm and Ernst Schmidt Jr. 1982 founding member of the newly constituted Austria Filmmakers Cooperative. Resigned 1993. 1984 start of curatorial work with presentation of the two-part program “überBlick – Super-8-Filme aus Österreich” at Kutscherhaus, Berlin. From 1987 - 1991 P.T. curated programs and retrospectives of Austrian avant-garde film in Berlin, Lucerne, Lisbon, Karlsruhe, Skövde (Sweden), Hannover, Strasbourg, Budapest, Warsaw and Kremsir (CSFR). late Juli 1984 return to Vienna. 1984 founding member of the “UFVA – Unabhängiger Film & Video Austria” with Eva Schlegel, Heimo Zobernig, Helmut Mark, Gudrun Bielz, Helmut Rainer and others. 1985 and 1986 work on the dissertation “Film + Art: Toward a Critical Aesthetics of Cinematography” at the Institute of Philosophy, Vienna. 1986 awarded PhD in philosophy. 1986 meets Martin Arnold. 1988 meets Kurt Kren. 1988 conception and curator of the festival “The Light of Periphery – Austrian Avant-Garde Film 1957–1988” at the Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna. 1989 Film Promotion Award given by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts. 1989 represents Austria at the Algiers Biennial. 1989 - 2002 teaches artistic filmmaking at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design, Linz. 1990 conception and curator of the symposium and festival “Im Off der Geschichte” at the Stadtkino Wien (avant-garde films from the UK, Germany and Austria; together with Martin Arnold). 1991 conception and curator of the nine-day festival “Found Footage – Filme aus gefundenem Material” (together with Brigitta Burger-Utzer) at the Stadtkino, with catalogue. Sixpack Film is founded as an organizing institution for this event. Subsequently Sixpack Film is developed as an organization for the distribution and dissemination of non-commercial Austrian films, becoming an institution that remains internationally exemplary to this day. 1992 conception and curator of the festival “Unknown Territories – The American Independent Film” at the Stadtkino (together with Martin Arnold and Alexander Horwath; organized by Sixpack Film). 1992 appointed artistic director of the newly founded festival of Austrian film, the “Diagonale“, for 1993 and 1994 by the Minister for the Arts, Dr. Rudolf Scholten. 1993 conception and curator of the retrospective “Austrian Avant-Garde Film from Kubelka to the Present“ in Berlin. 1993 conception and curator of the film tour “En el Frente de las Imágines. Cine de Vanguardia en Austria” (5 programs; tour through Spain). 1993 meets Peter Kubelka. 1993 and 1994 artistic director of the “Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Film” in Salzburg. 1995 editor of the book “Peter Kubelka” (together with Gabriele Jutz). 1996 Austrian National Award for the Art of Film. 1996 conception and curator of the symposium and festival “The Modernist Vision” (organized by Sixpack Film). since 1996 second residence in Enzersfeld (Lower Austria). 1997 a darkroom and working studio – the so-called “Manufraktur” – is set up at the house in Enzersfeld. Starts to work on the CinemaScope trilogy. since summer semester 1998 teaches “Audiovisual Communication/ Film” at the University of Applied Art, Vienna, masterclass for Advertising and Graphics. 1998 conception and curator of the film tour “Cinematography as Art: On the Image Front” (4 programs; with accompanying lectures by Gabriele Jutz). September 2001 conclusion of the CinemaScope trilogy. 2002 conception and curator of the symposium and festival “Early Cinema and the Avant-Garde” at the Stadtkino (together with Gabriele Jutz; organized by Sixpack Film). May 2002 the CinemaScope trilogy is presented at the Cannes Film Festival in the series “Quinzaine des réalisateurs”. 2003 Award of Appreciation for the Art of Film given by the Federal Province of Lower Austria. 2003 - 2004 ongoing work in the darkroom on Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine.May 2005 world premiere of Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine at the Cannes Film Festival in the series“Quinzaine des réalisateurs”. October 2005 book launch of Peter Tscherkassky (ed. A. Horwath, M. Loebenstein) at the Austrian Film Museum. 2006 production of Nachtstück (Nocturne), a film commissioned on the occasion of Mozart’s 250th birthday. July 2006 first one-person exhibition of “Light Boxes”, each displaying film strips of a 90-second sequence, concurrently playing as a DVD loop (L’Arrivée, Outer Space, Dream Work, Instructions): FRAME BY FRAME at the Gallery SOLAR (Vila do Conde, Portugal; with Waterfall by Apichatpong Weerasethakul). Group exhibitions: RISS/LÜCKE/SCHARNIER A – Galerie nächst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna. The Expanded Eye. Sehen – entgrenzt und verflüssigt – Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland. 25TH VIPER International Festival for Film, Video and New Media – Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. MozArt – MMK Museum Moderner Kunst – Stiftung Wörlen, Passau, Germany. 2007 presentation of the film Outer Space at “documenta 12”, Kassel, Germany. June 2007 marriage with American filmmaker Eve Heller. One-person exhibition: Frame by Frame – Grand Parade, University of Brighton, Great Britain. Group exhibitions: Borderline Behaviour – Drawn Towards Animation – Tent, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Rencontres Audiovisuelles – Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France. Final Cut – European Media Art Festival – Media Art and Cinema – Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück, Germany. Pervasive Animation – Tate Modern, London, Great Britain. Don't torture the rotten duckling – INOVA – Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI, USA. 2008 commences darkroom work on the film Coming Attractions. May 2008 lecture at the Louvre, Paris, accompanied by world premiere of the original 35mm version of Parallel Space: Inter-View (1992). One-person exhibition: From a Dark Room – Galerie nächst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna. Group exhibitions: UN COUP DE DÉS – Generali Foundation, Vienna. Vor- und Nachbilder – Gallery Maerz, Linz. Zeitraumzeit – Künstlerhaus k/haus, Vienna. L'éternel retour 1 : La Méduse – La Salle de bains, Lyon, France. 2009 ongoing darkroom work on Coming Attractions. Group exhibitions: The Kaleidoscopic Eye – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. V.O.S.T. OV/OT – iMAL (interactive Media Art Laboratory), Brussels, Belgium. 2010 world premiere of Coming Attractions at the 67th Venice Film Festival; awarded Premio Orizzonti for Best Short Film – 67th Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica, Venecia. Group Exhibition: It Must Be Your Sexy Way – AKI Gallery, Taipeh, Taiwan. 2010–2012 ongoing work as editor on the English language book Film Unframed. A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema. February 2012 Presentation of the book From a Dark Room. The Manufractured Cinema of Peter Tscherkassky/Desde el cuarto oscuro. El cine manufracturado de Peter Tscherkassky [English/Spanish]. Ed.: Maximiliano Cruz & Sandra Gómez. Mexico City: Interior 13, 2012. March 2012 Presentation of the book Film Unframed. A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema. Ed.: Peter Tscherkassky. February 2013 Release of the DVD Attractions, Instructions, and Other Romances (label “Index”, Vienna). May 2015 world premiere of The Exquisite Corpus at the Cannes Film Festival in the series “Quinzaine des réalisateurs” Translation: Eve Heller close