Peter Tscherkassky - Outer Space

Outer Space by Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky in full length and high quality. Go to www.vimeo.com/... to watch more films by Peter Tscherkassky and many other Austrian avant-garde and experimental filmmakers, as well as video artists. Or get the DVD's at www.index-dvd.at. If you like our content, you can follow us to stay in touch. And we always appreciate a thumbs-up.

[@the101stgec7]

me when it's my turn to pick the movie at the epileptic function

[@ethant055]

Needs an epilepsy warning

[@slightexag]

seems like 75% of experimental films use flashing lights like this

[@god-noise-god]

you need a job lil brou

[@jojobot]

​@@god-noise-god ?

[@robertfrippgaming6924]

@@jojobot ?

[@agomezurrea]

Why use drugs when you have this infinitely ecstatic cinema?

[@ivolime]

to watch when you use drugs

[@averypain]

Cuz you live the sinema:d

[@toastcrumch]

WARNING! RAPIDLY FLASHING IMAGES GO FROM 4:51 TO 7:54

[@longsongsforboredpeople]

Ah, the best part

[@celesteuribe]

that intro reminded me of the gas station scene from twin peaks s3

[@dudumachado007]

Hey man, i think your video is glitching a little

[@VitorMiguell]

this is fascinating. I have absolutely no recollection of how did I found this video. this feels like what would happen if a computer was trying to recreate the memories of a deceased person. And all you see are the shattered, mixed memories from different moments all on top of each other.

[@NYisconstipated]

great description

[@Tacnayn87]

or maybe its an alien recrating them since its called outer space

[@vinzelrato]

Gaspar Noe's good taste in cinema brought me here

[@tangowhiskyman2007]

where did he talk about it?

[@vinzelrato]

@@tangowhiskyman2007 in a "Les Cahiers du cinema" magazine (I am French like Gaspar Noe is) that is how I heard about his top films list. Although if you look closely to the begining of the film "Climax" when he interviews the dancers playing in the movie, you can see on both sides of the screen all the movies he talked about (Pasolini, David Lynch, etc.) I'm sure you can find it if you look

[@Sdfghjk442]

This movie is genuinely scary and confusing (in a good way). Edited brilliantly

[@kiana3670]

there's two aspects of this film that immediately came to mind upon finishing this for the first time and I'm going to try my best to connect them. literal: it's like a deconstruction of sound and sight. it begins as somewhat legible yet distorted images, disintegrating to the point where the screen is occupied by just shapes - the shape of rectangles reminiscent of a 35mm film guage reeling (although the aspect ratio of the film is something else? not sure), as well as a sharper shape that, when paused, looks likes audio waveform. This is literally the visual (film guage) and audio (waveform) of the film being torn apart and presented as its constituent parts. It reminds me of deconstruction in music (see Tim Hecker). thematic: I interpreted this as a trauma piece - using visual and sonic deconstruction as a means of conveying trauma induced memory loss. Your brain's self-destruct mechanism in an attempt to stop you from reliving your abuse.

[@mr.xyzzzz5758]

Luved your analysis

[@acarnold]

I saw Outerspace on the wide screen at the the Tellruide international Experimental Film Exposition in 2001 and was overwhelmed by the experience. The light and sound and fragmentary chaos on the big screen changed me forever. The source footage is from the film “The Entity” starring Barbara Hershey.

[@sksksksks11]

If death grips was a film

[@tbsq1114]

OMG I VE BEEN LOOKING TO SEE THIS IN HD FOR AGES

[@markastley2540]

Masterpiece and what a hauntingly beautiful ending.

[@simonwoods7112]

Abuse and self-hatred have never been portrayed so terrifyingly on film. Bravo.

[@angloid5249]

self consciousness - prolonged existential horror- coming to terms with eternal recurrence

[@mr.xyzzzz5758]

True

[@aniiinanana]

as vezes isso acontece mesmo

[@ozymandiaz362]

and if William Basinski made films this is equivalent to Disitegration Loops

[@skullyman409]

True , or his album, Melancholia

[@ggthewhale]

I was thinking Oheohtrix Point Never

[@treatyofversace]

definitely CoH Plays Cosey as well

[@mantrabeeg]

This guy did YTPs before it was cool

[@scottfrench4139]

Found this last night in MUBI's library. Blew me away.

[@h.hholmes.492]

Obviously, MUBI will only bring you here, its one of the most worthy hand-picked curator cinema podium which truly follows its ethics unlike Netflix and Amazon which is total cringe,

[@WilliamSantana159]

same

[@michaeltoole8010]

@@h.hholmes.492 you must be the real hh holmes because only a psychopath would write something that pretentious

[@totallynotsummermorrison33]

I have seen some of the most infamous films, whether that be fiction or real footage of horrific incidents; and yet none of them chilled me to the core like this one. Dear God, I have never had a film grip me like that. Really impressive editing for 1999, impressive even for now, I don't know how they did it. Really amazing use of audio, I feel it really seals the deal; the creativity you would need to plan out these shots, and these sounds so horrifically is the work of a true artist. Not only that, but the way it's not just random edits, but tells a story through its editing; from dark and choppy, to smooth and white, to dark and violent again. Love the euphoric hit when the negative filter rectangles/lightening come on and everything smears, and music kicks in. I have never seen anything really like this, makes me feel like I'm drowning in a sea of violent waves, just really great. I don't think anyone could make this without being just a little insane, and an insane commitment to the films people quietly keep in their mind to never be said aloud, you could easily use this as torture, and to that I tip my hat to you Tscherkassky!

[@natureboytom]

It's Einstein who once said..." Time exits so that everything doesn't happen all at once" This was a fine example of that. Thank you and hello from FNQ, Australia.

[@el3xg373]

The question is, what came before: Twin Peaks The Return Episode 8 or this^^

[@prometheusjackson8787]

This obviously

[@geoffoygdevie8663]

Je remets en ligne ce magnifique texte de " Bojarski " (qui est cet écrivain sublime ?), malheureusement disparu de la toile... Outer Space, envoyé par bojarski le 19 janvier 2002 à 00:17:06: " Interzone Dix minutes qui brûlent les yeux. Là, sur ce palimpseste radioactif. La nuit. Le danger qui guette. Dans le regard de la caméra légèrement oblique, surgit d’un noir profond une maison éclairée par une lumière vacillante en tremblotis stroboscopiques. Une jeune femme s’approche lentement ; plan sur sa main qui ouvre la porte : de quoi a-t-elle peur ? Lorsqu’elle entre, les points de montage craquent, la bande-son grince de façon atténuée et étouffée. Elle traverse silencieusement un couloir, se retrouve dans une chambre. Son visage démultiplié se brise alors contre l’écran et c’est tout le film qui plonge dans un chaos visuel et sonore. Voici Outer Space de Peter Tscherkassky, perfection d’escamotage visuel et de dysnarration chaotique. Le film délinéarise une scène initiale de The Entity/ L’Emprise de Sydney J. Furie, (film d’horreur avec Barbara Hershey et support de cette entreprise de found-footage propre à la pratique expérimentale (cinéma du remontage qui signifie le réemploi d’archives ou de films comme matières premières à un retravail ; matériau récupéré ou recyclé ; récupération en effet puisque ici le film matrice fut trouvé dans une poubelle.)) en la déformant et en la consumant photogramme par photogramme jusqu’à son implosion pelliculaire. Le nouveau tirage, la nouvelle exposition du matériel, le travail au stylo laser, image par image, font chevaucher les images et les espaces les uns dans les autres, soustraient au public toute assise et fendent les visages comme dans un cauchemar. Du off, du outer space justement, des forces étranges s’introduisent dans les images et bouleversent le montage ; des murs de verre éclatent, des meubles se renversent, l’héroïne est prise dans les sidérations d’une mise en scène déréglée qui entraîne le spectateur dans un brasier d’images épileptiques secouées jusqu’à l’effervescence. De cette dérégulation plastique naissent quelques plans faramineux qui ouvrent des brèches saisissantes dans l’écran et la psyché du spectateur, convulsé par le vertige et l’effroi avant hypnose rétinienne en négatif solarisé. Tscherkassky harcèle son héroïne, la projette de mur en mur-visage démultiplié en traces fantomatiques qui s’abîme en un cri-, la pousse contre l‘appareil cinématique jusqu’à ce que les images se mettent à bégayer, à sortir de leurs gonds. Le cinéma se déchire lui-même en vingt quatre Tchernobyl par seconde dans l’espoir d’une dernière extase. Outer Space : un shocker sur le dysfonctionnement filmique, un hellraiser du cinéma d’avant garde qui déclenche un enfer et mène la destruction avec une rare beauté. Où comment un réalisateur éventre son matériel jusqu’à la panique de la machine cinématographique."

[@alejoparedes2388]

Reminds me of the ending of Don Hertzfeldt's "Rejected".

[@acarnold]

That’s exactly what I’ve always thought about Rejected. Good call .

[@scum1979]

Worth the seizure it game me

[@lunarvision]

As a horror buff who has crossed the rubicon - I love this so much.

[@SuperMaldoror]

Magical! My all time favorite masterpiece from Peter. Have this HD vers already long time but each time I am under the hypnosis of this and his other amazing works... Bravo!

[@leeroyescu]

Anyone have a video of how this was done? With the film stock and the optical printer and stuff?

[@indexedition8575]

maybe this one (German though): kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKbPop-Ndp1-ba8

[@lucasdias-videomaker4276]

sahshahssha impossível ele não ter sido processado por alguém ter tido um ataque epilético

[@lrodriguesv]

love seeing epileptic inclusion in cinema

[@jesusolmo6278]

Very interesting experiment. I'm totally fine with creative appropriation. What puzzles me a bit is that you never mention the source material: the 1982 film "The Entity" by Sidney J. Furie.

[@santasprees]

A fantastic abstraction.

[@aldriel8274]

It's no abstraction.

[@Orson-Welsh]

wow what a masterpiece. thanks!

[@edlpietro3677]

carai que loco vei suhaushuahs

[@truthrazors3703]

Sweet, thanks for the upload

[@nathanielpacheco3792]

tremendisimo, saludos desde argentina jaja

[@indexedition8575]

Muchas gracias y saludos desde Vienna!

[@doctorcrankyflaps1724]

Wow. That was intense.

[@SamuelBlack84]

Interesting atmosphere Reminds me of my childhood nights wandering around the house in the dead of night, half asleep

[@long_johnsilver]

I'm blind now

[@xBLACKOUT19]

Thank you so much for uploading this!

[@humanautical]

Fantastic, reminds me a lot of the music of Tim Hecker, both in sight and sound.

[@MattieCooper10000]

Great film!

[@prithwishroy3767]

Wonderful!

[@Skullkan6]

Wow... that was great.

[@shell3289]

THE SOUND IS CRUCIAL TO THIS FILM AND IT IS NOT WELL REPRESENTED HERE

[@willhach2291]

Do you know where I can find it with proper sound?

[@electricrussellette]

Maybe another avant-garde film on the nature of voyeurism? It seems to just be a badly damaged film...but then you put a beautiful woman in an unsettling environment, and my own voyeurism kicks in. I ignore most of the distorted and disorientating film (or editing?) and ask myself, what is going to happen to her???

[@vyrin]

soooo good

[@nospeurs]

WHAT THE

[@reedtheinfinite]

1:29 in and this is just so amazing, very individual style. havent seen soemthing like this before

[@audgpog5408]

FUCKING TIGHT

[@PhenomenologyClub]

best film ever made

[@user-yy3wq8jh6j]

especially which part?

[@swagkachu3784]

@@user-yy3wq8jh6j the part where it ends.

[@ozcsert0]

FYI, the audio is summed to mono which took away the actual warmth and dimension the sound design has of the movie and you shouldn't really be caring about this until you experience it in full stereo.

[@aaba1938]

I don't get it.

[@thelovelyseamus]

Ask Toyah.

[@aaba1938]

@@thelovelyseamus I was in the kitchen. Are you outside?

[@umbraav6281]

He made an experimental re-film from the film called The Entity, trying to upper the meaning of the camera from the original film with the concept of the same terror entity abusing the woman at the house, and well he made it so haunting and scary and beautiful so its entirely a new film

[@swagkachu3784]

There is nothing to get. If you dont get it than then this ambigous film didnt had anything to tell for you buddy.

[@ttracerootz]

the ente 1982

[@RovennaR]

Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?

[@corvanha1]

eye catching

[@TheCamthecoolio]

real

[@movietheme]

Fucking awesome

[@kyzendelaguia1063]

What the fuck was that

[@bsgoc]

artwank bullshit could work as a music video though