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Outer Space

10 min. | Experimental | N-7

Outer Space makes use of the horror film The Entity:. Tscherkassky employs it’s rather conventional Hollywood story to tell his own tale: a woman enters her movie image where she is attacked by a "monster", an external force which is visible to the viewer only. This force is coarse reality, the area surrounding the image. She is threatened by the soundtrack's jagged trail of light, by the strip of perforation and the sounds of the "manufracture", by the sudden reproduction of her own image, by the perforation of her pictorial space, by the standstill of time within the film.

Peter Tscherkassky

Peter Tscherkassky

Peter Tscherkassky holds a PhD. in philosophy. Co-founder of sixpackfilm. Specialist of avant-garde film, he’s edited in 2012 “Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema” and co-edited “Peter Kubelka” in 1995. His films have been honored with many awards including Golden Gate Award, Main Prize at Oberhausen, and Best Short Film in Venice.
Languages
Silent
Produced
1999: Austria

Film information

Director
Peter Tscherkassky
Producers
Peter Tscherkassky
Screenplay
Peter Tscherkassky
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