L’ ARRIVEE

Peter Tscherkassky has been making films since 1979. His films received more than fifty awards including Golden Gate Award (San Francisco), Main Prize at Oberhausen, and Best Short Film at the Venice International Film Festival. He studied philosophy. His dissertation was titled Film as Art (1986). He organized several film festivals and curated countless film programs. Since 1984, he has written numerous essays on avant-garde films. He is the editor of the book Peter Kubelka (1995). He co-founded sixpackfilm (1991). 2005: World premiere of Instructions for A Light And Sound Machine at the Cannes Film Festival. Since 2006, he has presented numerous exhibitions of his Film Strips Light Boxes in several countries. In 2010, Coming Attractions had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. He is the editor of the book Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema, published in 2012. In 2015, The Exquisite Corpus had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. From 2018 to 2021, a series of concerts with newly composed soundtracks for his CinemaScope trilogy was performed by Ensemble Nikel, in Darmstadt, Utrecht, Graz, New York, Tel Aviv, Paris, Metz, Brussels, and Copenhagen. In 2019, he was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit from the City of Vienna. In 2021, Train Again has its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2021, the double-vinyl-LP Dirk Schaefer: Peter Tscherkassky, All the Soundtracks (2005–2021) was released on the label purge.