Not a stage direction, but rather something very concrete is hidden behind the technical term. Something which betrays a little of the yearning for intelligent and playful dealings with the medium of short film….

Cinematic wordplay—and image play—in service of a gag, this playful miniature from Peter Tscherkassky certainly doesn’t want for brevity. A mere 22 seconds long, Shot-Countershot reconfigures a gunfight from an old western for the avant-garde equivalent of a one-liner.