Innovative Film Austria 12/13

Peter Tscherkassky
Coming Attractions
58 International Festival Screenings
New York, Toronto, London, Rotterdam, Melbourne ...
4 International Awards
Venice (Premio Orizzonti for Best Short Film), Gijón (Best Short Film), Rio de
Janeiro (Special Mention), Vienna Independent Shorts Festival (Best Austrian Film)
Tscherkassky’s recent, most beautiful film Coming
Attractions creates a complex mosaic of crossreferences
– both formal, between shots, and
historical, between periods and genres. This film
demonstrates the extreme textual density found
footage can achieve (…) Tscherkassky absolutely
creates a new film, but still delivers discoveries
drawn from the original footage, relevations about
the nature of film and our fascination with it.
Tom Gunning
Avant-garde film is attributed with a spiritual affinity to early cinema, also known
as the “Cinema of Attractions”. This notion touches upon its exhibitionistic
character of early film, the undaunted show and tell of its creative possibilities,
its direct connection to the audience. At the same time, elements of early cinema
have been preserved in advertising, such as its frontal address of the camera and
bald use of cinematic “tricks”. Coming Attractions seeks to humorously excavate
the subterranean rhizomes of a mutual genealogy and to celebrate the trinity of
early cinema, avant-garde film and advertising.
Austria 2010 No dialogue 35 mm 1:1.37 b&w Dolby SR 25 min
Premiere September 2010 Venice Int. Film Festival/Orizzonti Competition
40>41 Most Wanted