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COMING ATTRACTIONS

COMING ATTRACTIONS

COMING ATTRACTIONS

Peter Tscherkassky

  • Country: Austria
  • Year: 2010
  • Language: No dialogue
  • Producer: Peter Tscherkassky
  • Executive Producer: Peter Tscherkassky
  • Screenplay: Peter Tscherkassky
  • Runtime: 25
  • Programmes:

Austrian master Peter Tscherkassky's latest epic is a sly comedy that mines the relationship between early cinema and the avant-garde by way of advertising. With references to Méliès, les Lumières, Cocteau and Fernand Léger, COMING ATTRACTIONS playfully explores cinema's subliminal possibilities.

Experimental and Avant-Garde Short Film Arts Architecture and Design

Films in Wavelengths 6: Coming Attractions

Photofinish Figures

Paolo Gioli

With exhilirating rhythms and flashing sideways motion, the latest by celebrated Italian aritst Paolo Gioli is a 16mm, black and white ode to faces and the city. Il Finish delle Figure reminds one of Muybridge but relays a sense of the conteporary, sensory overload of living in a metropolis.

Day was a Scorcher

Ken Jacobs

Stroboscopic home movies, from Rome to NYC.

Concorso di bellezza fra bambini a Torino

 

Amazing images gleaned from the archives of the EYE Film Institute of Netherlands; a parade of pint-sized pulchritude.

Delphine de Oliveira

Friedl vom Gröller

A young woman is photographed in a Parisian courtyard. Her belle laide looks convey a paradox of emotion and many untold mysteries.

Jonas Mekas In Kodachrome Days

Ken Jacobs

Stroboscopic home movies of a famous filmmaker, by another.

Roi des Dollars

Segundo de Chomón

Illusions of gutteral gold.

COMING ATTRACTIONS

Peter Tscherkassky

Austrian master Peter Tscherkassky's latest epic is a sly comedy that mines the relationship between early cinema and the avant-garde by way of advertising. With references to Méliès, les Lumières, Cocteau and Fernand Léger, COMING ATTRACTIONS playfully explores cinema's subliminal possibilities.

Bits and Pieces

Various and Anonymous

Amazing images gleaned from the archives of the EYE Film Institute Netherlands.

screening times

    • Monday September 13
    • 9:00:00 PM
    • JACKMAN HALL - AGO

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

official description

Peter Tscherkassky's Coming Attractions is a sly, sartorial comedy that masterfully mines the relationship between early cinema and the avant-garde by way of fifties-era advertising. With references to Méliès, Lumières, Cocteau, Léger, Chomette and Persil laundry detergent, the film explores cinema’s subliminal possibilities using an impressive arsenal of techniques, like solarization, optical printing and multiple exposures.

director bio

Peter Tscherkassky is an Australian experimental filmmaker who works with found footage. He has been making films since the early eighties. His more recent avant-garde works include Dream Work (01) and Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (05), which screened at the Festival.

full credits


Producer: Peter Tscherkassky
Executive Producer: Peter Tscherkassky
Cinematographer: Peter Tscherkassky
Editor: Peter Tscherkassky, Eve Heller
Music: Dirk Schaefer
   
International Sales Agent: Sixpack Film
Production Company: P.O.E.T. Picture Production
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