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Ultraviolette and the Blood-Spitters Gang + Films by Peter Tscherkassky(RTRFH 2022)
Opening on 15-10-2022
113 minutes
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Movie Name: The Exquisite CorpusLanguage: No Dialogue
Category: III
Duration: 19 minutes
Director: Peter Tscherkassky
Story: With raw materials from several erotic and nudist films, Tscherkassky brings us to a dream of a nude sleeping beauty on the beach. Creation of sources from different origins coheres the spirit of 'cadavre exquis (exquisite corpus)', a writing and drawing technique of surrealists from Paris in the 1920s. According to Tscherkassky, the film title also represents analogue cinema: 'an exquisite corpus but stamped with an expiration date. The exact date remains unknown, but it is foreseeable.'
Movie Name: Train Again
Language: No Dialogue
Category: --
Duration: 20 minutes
Director: Peter Tscherkassky
Story: All aboard! This is a journey through time: 126 years ago, the Lumière brothers filmed at a train platform in La Ciotat and brought into the world. Trains and cinema are inextricably connected since. Tscherkassky copies frame by frame by hand and uses multiple exposures, turning train footage into a thrilling ride of a spectacular ‘action blockbuster’. Paying homage to Kurt Kren the pioneering experimental filmmaker in Europe, Tscherkassky once again looks into the nature of analogue film as well as the growth and decline of cinema itself.
Peter Tscherkassky (1958-)
Tscherkassky is an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker whose works are mostly based on found footage and made in the darkroom by hand. He focuses on the materiality of film and has been experimenting in analogue filmmaking since 1978. His films have been honoured with numerous awards and been shown in major film festivals and exhibitions around the world.
Movie Name: Ultraviolette and the Blood-Spitters Gang
Language: French
Category: --
Duration: 74 minutes
Director: Robin Hunzinger
Story: After the death of his grandmother Emma, Robin Hunzinger and his mother found a carefully preserved collection of letters which Emma received from a girl called Marcelle. Marcelle and Emma met in the mid-1920s. Secretly, love blossomed between the two teenage girls, but after two years they parted ways. Marcelle developed tuberculosis and was admitted to a sanatorium, where she wrote many letters to Emma, letters that still burn with great evocative power. At the sanatorium, rebellious Marcelle, nicknamed ‘Ultraviolette’, led a group of three young women who were also sick. The film, told through Marcelle’s eloquent letters, combines archive footage, avant-garde films, and music to create a sensuous, poetic atmosphere of absolute love, a daring young woman ahead of her time and a group of kindred spirits which break the barrier of time.
Robin Hunzinger (1969-)
After studying History and Art History in Strasbourg, Hunzinger studied Cinema in Jussieu with Jean Douchet, Jean Rouch and Bernard Cuau. Since then he has made documentary films about history, war, traces of memory, man in the face of the unthinkable and nature. His films have been shown in numerous film festivals with awards.
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Ultraviolette and the Blood-Spitters Gang + Films by Peter Tscherkassky(RTRFH 2022)
Opening on 15-10-2022
113 minutes
()
Synopsis
Movie Name: The Exquisite CorpusLanguage: No Dialogue
Category: III
Duration: 19 minutes
Director: Peter Tscherkassky
Story: With raw materials from several erotic and nudist films, Tscherkassky brings us to a dream of a nude sleeping beauty on the beach. Creation of sources from different origins coheres the spirit of 'cadavre exquis (exquisite corpus)', a writing and drawing technique of surrealists from Paris in the 1920s. According to Tscherkassky, the film title also represents analogue cinema: 'an exquisite corpus but stamped with an expiration date. The exact date remains unknown, but it is foreseeable.'
Movie Name: Train Again
Language: No Dialogue
Category: --
Duration: 20 minutes
Director: Peter Tscherkassky
Story: All aboard! This is a journey through time: 126 years ago, the Lumière brothers filmed at a train platform in La Ciotat and brought into the world. Trains and cinema are inextricably connected since. Tscherkassky copies frame by frame by hand and uses multiple exposures, turning train footage into a thrilling ride of a spectacular ‘action blockbuster’. Paying homage to Kurt Kren the pioneering experimental filmmaker in Europe, Tscherkassky once again looks into the nature of analogue film as well as the growth and decline of cinema itself.
Peter Tscherkassky (1958-)
Tscherkassky is an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker whose works are mostly based on found footage and made in the darkroom by hand. He focuses on the materiality of film and has been experimenting in analogue filmmaking since 1978. His films have been honoured with numerous awards and been shown in major film festivals and exhibitions around the world.
Movie Name: Ultraviolette and the Blood-Spitters Gang
Language: French
Category: --
Duration: 74 minutes
Director: Robin Hunzinger
Story: After the death of his grandmother Emma, Robin Hunzinger and his mother found a carefully preserved collection of letters which Emma received from a girl called Marcelle. Marcelle and Emma met in the mid-1920s. Secretly, love blossomed between the two teenage girls, but after two years they parted ways. Marcelle developed tuberculosis and was admitted to a sanatorium, where she wrote many letters to Emma, letters that still burn with great evocative power. At the sanatorium, rebellious Marcelle, nicknamed ‘Ultraviolette’, led a group of three young women who were also sick. The film, told through Marcelle’s eloquent letters, combines archive footage, avant-garde films, and music to create a sensuous, poetic atmosphere of absolute love, a daring young woman ahead of her time and a group of kindred spirits which break the barrier of time.
Robin Hunzinger (1969-)
After studying History and Art History in Strasbourg, Hunzinger studied Cinema in Jussieu with Jean Douchet, Jean Rouch and Bernard Cuau. Since then he has made documentary films about history, war, traces of memory, man in the face of the unthinkable and nature. His films have been shown in numerous film festivals with awards.
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