Motion Picture (La sortie des ouvriers de l'usine Lumière à Lyon)

Canada, United Kingdom, Austria

1984

3 Min

Black and White

1.37:1

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Currently 2.7/5 Stars.
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In the darkroom, 50 unexposed film strips were laid across a surface, upon which a frame of La sortie des ouvriers de l’usine Lumière was projected. The stringing together of the individual developed sections make up the new film, which reads the original frame like a page from a musical score: within the strips from top to bottom and sequentially from left to right.

Director

Peter Tscherkassky

Born in 1958 in Vienna, Austria. Lived in Berlin 1979-84. Studied philosophy. Doctoral thesis: “Film as Art. Towards a Critical Aesthetics of Cinematography” (1985/86). Founding member of Sixpack Film. Organized several international avant-garde film festivals in Vienna and film tours abroad. Since 1984 numerous publications and lectures on the history and theory of avant-garde film. 1993 and 1994 artistic director of the annual Austrian film festival “Diagonale”. Editor of the book “Peter Kubelka” (1995; with Gabriele Jutz). Films since 1979. Recent book: Alexander Horwath, Michael Loebenstein (Ed.), “Peter Tscherkassky” (germ./engl.; Vienna 2005). —http://www.tscherkassky.at

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Flavien

25Sep12

Tscherkassky opère à niveau microscopique. Son voyage à travers l'épiderme du film fondateur, "La sortie des usines Lumière", donne une succession irrégulière et dynamique de noirs et de blancs fluctuants. Kubelka et ses flicker films ne sont pas loin. La sortie dont prend acte le film est celle des ouvriers de la lumière, c'est-à-dire, en cinéma, de l'ombre que permet d'esquisser en creux la chimie photographique.