A consistent thread is discernible in Tscherkassky’s oeuvre involving a game of pivoting between the just recognizable and the just no longer recognizable filmic image – it is about the desire to see. An example of this is Erotique.

In this dynamic micro-short—only 1 minute 40 seconds!—Peter Tscherkassky proves he can pack in ideas in the smallest of spaces. A vivid dissection of the cinematic gaze, voyeurism, and how we consume erotic images, Erotique splinters the human form into a moving mosaic of limbs and textures.