The Exquisite Corpus

It is with deceptive simplicity that Peter Tscherkassky embarks on his filmic voyage to regions of desire found in sexualized cinema: A naked couple from a 1960s nudist film climbs aboard a small sailboat, gliding over darkly tinged waters alongside a rocky coastline before stumbling on an isolated beach where a sleeping beauty lays. It takes nearly four minutes to arrive at this juncture, before Tscherkassky blows his fuses in characteristic style. Images begin to flicker and tremble, intermingling and superimposing, nervously shimmering between positive and negative, diving headlong into over-, under-, and multiple exposures, split screens and distortion...

Cannes 2015 by Daniel Kasman

Cannes 2015. Day 10
Written by Daniel Kasman
Published on 25 May 2015
https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/cannes-2015-day-10

Trying to capture global trends in contemporary filmmaking by drawing thematic connections between films at the same festival has long been a hackneyed technique that little understands the variable pathways it takes for a film to get made and eventually programmed alongside another. Once one knows more of the tortuous route most filmmakers follow to finish their work and get it shown, the tendrils of affinity or dissonance snaking between theatres and screenings at a festival feel less like a glimpse of the zeitgeist and more the electric charge of...

Night Award / Signes de Nuit Bangkok / Jury-statement (Award)

The Exquisite Corpus by Peter Tscherkassky receives the Night Award (Section Short Films)

The Night Award honors films, which are able to balance ambiguity and complexity characterized by enigmatic mysteriousness and subtleness, which keeps mind and consideration moving.

Jury Statement :
Introduced as an obscene, amoral, shamelessly self-exposed, only except that it had been done since the year of donkey, Tscherkassky´s latest (and finest) piece of collage as a compilation and accumulation of archival of pornography that secretly and privately screened (more or less presumably) in the forties, otherwise modifies and materialisation to the term "underground cinema", since those obliged to be exclusively...