Outer Space

Outer Space

Release date : January 1, 1999
Runtime : 10m
Countries of origin : Austria /
Original Language : No Language /
Director : Peter Tscherkassky /
Writers : Peter Tscherkassky /
Production companies : sixpackfilm /
January 1, 1999 10m Austria Horror No Language More
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A premonition of a horror film, lurking danger: A house - at night, slightly tilted in the camera's view, eerily lit - surfaces from the pitch black, then sinks back into it again. A young woman begins to move slowly towards the building. She enters it. The film cuts crackle, the sound track grates, suppressed, smothered. Found footage from Hollywood forms the basis for the film. The figure who creeps through the images, who is thrown around by them and who attacks them is Barbara Hershey. Tscherkassky's dramatic frame by frame re-cycling, re-copying and new exposure of the material, folds the images and the rooms into each other. It removes the ground from under the viewer's feet and splits faces, like in a bad dream. From the off, from outer space, foreign bodies penetrate the images and cause the montage to become panic stricken. The outer edges of the film image, the empty perforations and the skeletons of the optical sound track rehearse an invasion...
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Barbara Hershey
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  • title:Outer Space
  • status:Released
  • Release date: 1999
  • Runtime:10m
  • Genres: Horror ·
  • Countries of origin: Austria ·
  • Original Language: No Language ·
  • Director: Peter Tscherkassky /
  • Writers: Peter Tscherkassky ·
  • Production companies: sixpackfilm ·
  • Overview:A premonition of a horror film, lurking danger: A house - at night, slightly tilted in the camera's view, eerily lit - surfaces from the pitch black, then sinks back into it again. A young woman begins to move slowly towards the building. She enters it. The film cuts crackle, the sound track grates, suppressed, smothered. Found footage from Hollywood forms the basis for the film. The figure who creeps through the images, who is thrown around by them and who attacks them is Barbara Hershey. Tscherkassky's dramatic frame by frame re-cycling, re-copying and new exposure of the material, folds the images and the rooms into each other. It removes the ground from under the viewer's feet and splits faces, like in a bad dream. From the off, from outer space, foreign bodies penetrate the images and cause the montage to become panic stricken. The outer edges of the film image, the empty perforations and the skeletons of the optical sound track rehearse an invasion...
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