Austrian master Peter Tscherkassky’s latest epic is a sly comedy that excavates 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.
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Possessed
Sequence with a passing train, passengers in motion and a woman standing still on the platform becomes a study of illusionary movements. -
Trypps #7 (Badlands)
Trypps #7 charts a young woman’s LSD trip in the Badlands National Park before descending into a psychedelic, formal abstraction of the expansive dese -
Get Out of the Car
A miniature city symphony exposes Los Angeles’ gentrification and neglect. A cheeky montage of static images is set against the region’s musical histo
Film details
- Country of production
- Austria
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 25'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
