Conversation with Peter Tscherkassky

Talk

September 22, 2024 / 16:30

As part of The Dream of the Avant-Garde program, presented in collaboration with Pera Film, Othon Cinema, and the Österreichische Kulturforum Istanbul, a retrospective of films by Austrian director Peter Tscherkassky will be featured. Following a short film selection screening titled The Cinematic Layers on the same day, an interview with Peter Tscherkassky will be held.

About Peter Tscherkassky
Peter Tscherkassky, born in Vienna in 1958, is an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker. He studied at the University of Vienna and Freie Universität in Berlin, where he completed his doctoral thesis on "Film and Art." Tscherkassky has been making films since 1979 and has published extensively in film theory and history since 1984. He has held various teaching positions at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz (1989-2002) and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (1998-2006). In 1993 and 1994, Tscherkassky served as the artistic director of the Diagonale - Austrian Film Festival. His films have received more than 50 national and international awards, including the "Austrian Film Art Prize" (1996), the "Grand Prize at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival" (2002), and the "Best Short Film Orizzonti Award" at the Venice Film Festival (2010).

Peter Tscherkassky's films are part of many prestigious collections, including those at the Centre Pompidou, Harvard University's Film Archive, and the Cinémathèque Française. 

The talk will be in English with Turkish consecutive translation. Free admissions. Limited space, drop in, no reservations.

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