* 1958, Austria
Born in 1958 in Vienna. Started filmmaking in 1979. Tscherkassky earned his PhD. in philosophy in 1986 with a dissertation entitled “Film as Art”, and started teaching in 1988. Since 1984 he has published numerous essays on avant-garde film and in 1995 co-edited the book “Peter Kubelka” (with Gabriele Jutz). In 1991 he co-founded “sixpackfilm”. In 1993 and 1994 he was the artistic director of the national Austrian film festival “Diagonale”. Tscherkassky’s films have been honored with more than 50 awards including the Golden Gate Award (San Francisco), Main Prize at Oberhausen, and Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival. 2005: World premiere of Instructions for A Light And Sound Machine at the Cannes Film Festival in the series “Quinzaine des réalisateurs”. 2005: Publication of the book “Peter Tscherkassky” (English/German), edited by Alex Horwath & Michael Loebenstein. Tscherkassky’s light box installations have been exhibited throughout the world, including a one-person show at the renowned Gallery naechst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwaelder in Vienna. 2008: Lecture and world premiere of the original 35mm version of Parallel Space: Inter-View (1992) at the Louvre in Paris. 2010: World premiere of Coming Attractions at the Venice Film Festival (Premio Orizzonti Cortometraggio). 2012: Publication 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], edited by Maximiliano Cruz & Sandra Gómez. Editor of the book “Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema” (Vienna 2012). In the 2012 ranking of the “Greatest Films of All Time,” published every ten years by the BFI film magazine “Sight & Sound,” Outer Space was honored with the ranking of position #322 (Filmmakers’ poll) and position #377 (Critics’ poll). Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine was honored with the ranking of position #894 (Critics’ poll). 2015: World premiere of The Exquisite Corpus at the Cannes Film Festival in the series “Quinzaine des réalisateurs” (Special Mention).
2017: Release of Tscherkassky’s third DVD on “Edition Index”, Exquisite Ecstasies
2018–2021: series of concerts called “CinemaScope Music” with newly composed soundtracks for the CinemaScope trilogy by Clara Iannotta, Simon Loeffler, Joan Gómez Alemany, Julien Malaussena, Mirela Ivičević, Yoav Levy, and others, performed live by Ensemble Nikel, in Darmstadt, Utrecht, Graz, New York, Tel Aviv, Paris, Metz, Brussels, Copenhagen (to be continued).
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2019: Awarded The Golden Cross of Merit from the City of Vienna
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Alexander Horwath, Michael Loebenstein (Ed.): Peter Tscherkassky. deutsch/english / FilmmuseumSynemaPublikation
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