In the darkroom, 50 unexposed film strips were laid across a surface, upon which a frame of "La sortie des ouvrier 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.
Editing
50 film strips reassembled into a stuttering, explosive re-reading.
Direction
Tscherkassky's structuralist assault on cinema's origin myth.
Director
Peter Tscherkassky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tscherkassky belongs to the Austrian avant-garde scene that emerged in the 1980s, obsessed with found footage and the materiality of film itself.
The 1895 original was chosen specifically because it represents cinema's 'big bang'—making this both homage and particle accelerator collision.
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