Scene from the film Outer Space
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Outer Space

Direction
Year 
1999
Country
  • Austria
Runtime
10min 

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. They puncture the anyway indeterminate action of the film. Cinema tearing itself apart, driven by the expectation of a final ecstasy. Glass walls explode, furniture topples over. Tscherkassky puts his heroine under pressure, drives her to extremes. Time and time again she appears to hit out against the cinematic apparatus, until the images begin to stutter, are thrown off track. Outer Space is a shocker of cinematographic dysfunction; a hell-raiser of avant-garde cinema. It conjures up an inferno which pursues the destruction (of cinematic narrative and illusion) with unimaginable beauty.

Details

  • Original Title
    Outer Space
  • Direction
  • Screenplay
    Peter Tscherkassky
  • Runtime
    10 min (1-15 min.)
  • Year
    1999
  • Country
    • Austria
  • Production
  • Distribution
  • Festivals
    • Austin - Cinetexas - Int. short film&video&new media festival (1999)
    • Charlottes Ville - Virginia Film Festival (1999)
    • Cork - Int. Film Festival (1999)
    • Denver - Int. Film Festival (1999)
    • Graz - Diagonale, Festival des österreichischen Films (1999)
    • Graz - film+arc. (1999)
    • Leipzig - Int. Festival für Dok.- u. Animationsfilm (1999)
    • Luzern - VIPER - Int. Film und Video Festival (1999)
    • Madrid - Semana de Cine Experimental (1999)
    • New York - Expo of Short Film & Video (1999)
    • New York - Film Festival (1999)
    • New York Shorts International Film Festival (1999)
    • Viareggio - Europa Cinema & TV Film Festival (1999)
    • Winterthur - Kurzfilmtage (1999)
    • Ann Arbor - Film Festival (2000)
    • Bamberg - Kurzfilmtage (2000)
    • Barcelona - L’ALTERNATIVA - II Mostra Internacional de Cinema Alternatiu (2000)
    • Barcelona - Sonar Int. Festival of Advanced Music (2000)
    • Brest - Festival du Film Court (2000)
    • Chicago - International Film Festival (2000)
    • Chicago Underground Film Festival (2000)
    • Clermont-Ferrand - Festival de Court Metrage (2000)
    • Diagonale, Festival des Österreichischen Films (2000)
    • Hamburg - Int. Kurzfilm-Festival & No Budget (2000)
    • Helsinki - Avanto Media Art Festival (2000)
    • Humboldt - Int. Film Festival (2000)
    • London - British Short Film Festival (2000)
    • Los Angeles - LA Freewaves (2000)
    • Manchester Int. Short Film & Video Festival (2000)
    • Nantucket - Film Festival (2000)
    • New Jersey - Black Maria Festival (2000)
    • Norwegian Short Film Festival (2000)
    • Olympia - Film Festival (2000)
    • Osnabrück - European Media Art Festival (2000)
    • Palermo - l'immagine leggera. Int. Videoart, Film & Media Festival (2000)
    • Pesaro - Film Festival (2000)
    • Rotterdam - Int. Filmfestival (2000)
    • San Francisco - Golden Gate Award Int. Film Festival (2000)
    • Sao Paolo - Short Film Festival (2000)
    • Seattle - Int. Film Festival (2000)
    • Seine-St.Denis - Côté court (2000)
    • Seoul - Indie Forum (2000)
    • Split - Festival of New Film and Video (2000)
    • Sundance Film Festival (2000)
    • Trencianske Teplice - Int. Art Film Festival (2000)
    • Toronto - Worldwide Short Film Festival (2000)
    • Uppsala - Int. Short Film Festival (2000)
    • Utrecht - Impakt Festival (2000)
    • Vila do Conde - Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens (2000)
    • Windsor - Media City (2000)
    • Zürich - VIDEOEXperimental; Video & Film Festival (2000)
    • Austin - Cinetexas - Int. short film&video&new media festival (2001)
    • Brest - Festival du Film Court (2001)
    • Istanbul - Int. Short Film Festival (2001)
    • Stuttgart - Filmwinter, Expanded Media Festival (2001)
    • Tokyo - Image Forum Festival (2001)
    • Uppsala - Int. Short Film Festival (2001)
    • Aix-en-Provence - Festival Tous Courts (2002)
    • Athens - Film Festival (2002)
    • Aukland - New Zealand Int. Film Festival (2002)
    • Buenos Aires - Int. Videofestival (2002)
    • Cannes - Festival de Cannes (2002)
    • Cork - Int. Film Festival (2002)
    • Helsinki - Avanto Media Art Festival (2002)
    • Leeds - Int. FilmFestival (2002)
    • Regensburg - Kurzfilmwoche (2002)
    • Stuttgart - Filmwinter, Expanded Media Festival (2002)
    • Winterthur - Kurzfilmtage (2002)
    • Zürich - VIDEOEXperimental; Video & Film Festival (2002)
    • Barcelona - Sonar Int. Festival of Advanced Music (2003)
    • Brisbane - Int. Film Festival (2003)
    • Pesaro - Film Festival (2003)
    • Saarbrücken - Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis (2003)
    • Sao Paolo - Short Film Festival (2003)
    • Singapore International Film Festival (2003)
    • Tokyo - Image Forum Festival (2003)
    • Wiesbaden - exground on screen (2003)
    • Wunsiedel - Grenzland Filmtage (2003)
    • Barcelona - Sonar Int. Festival of Advanced Music (2004)
    • Hamburg - Int. Kurzfilm-Festival & No Budget (2004)
    • Hong Kong - Int. Film Festival (2004)
    • Diagonale, Festival des Österreichischen Films (2005)
    • Windsor - Media City (2005)
  • Awards
    • Gecko Award. Austin - Cinetexas - Int. short film&video&new media festival (1999)
    • Award for Innovative Cinema. Graz - Diagonale, Festival des österreichischen Films (1999)
    • Special Award for Innovation. Leipzig - Int. Festival für Dok.- u. Animationsfilm (1999)
    • 2nd Prize for Experimental. New York - Expo of Short Film & Video (1999)
    • Best Sound Design. Ann Arbor - Film Festival (2000)
    • Projectionist's Award. Bamberg - Kurzfilmtage (2000)
    • Silver Hugo for Experimental Short. Chicago - International Film Festival (2000)
    • Runner Up Award. Manchester Int. Short Film & Video Festival (2000)
    • Juror's Choice Award. New Jersey - Black Maria Festival (2000)
    • Second Prize. Palermo - l'immagine leggera. Int. Videoart, Film & Media Festival (2000)
    • Best Short & Golden Spire New Visions. San Francisco - Golden Gate Award Int. Film Festival (2000)
    • Honorable Mention. Seattle - Int. Film Festival (2000)
    • Grand Prize. Split - Festival of New Film and Video (2000)
    • 2nd Prize. Uppsala - Int. Short Film Festival (2000)
    • Jury Grand Prize. Windsor - Media City (2000)

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