Films by Peter Tscherkassky & Maria Lassnig & Lukas Marxt (10)
The Exquisite Corpus
Austria / 2015 / 19 minutes / NR
dir. Peter Tscherkassky
Based on various erotic films and advertising rushes, it plays on the “cadavre exquis” technique used by the Surrealists, drawing disparate body parts constellating magical creatures. Myriad fragments are melte...
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Fishing Is Not Done On Tuesdays
Austria, Germany/ 2017 / 15 minutes / NR
dir. Lukas Marxt, Marcel Odenbach
Landscape is a question of distance. Patterns and formations become recognizable from a distance revealing the landscape as a fabrication, a result of natural and historical movements. "Fishing is not done on T...
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Captive Horizon
Austria, Germany / 2015 / 14 minutes / NR
dir. Lukas Marxt
The film operates on a delicate line between reality and illusion. Director's favorite motifs – barren landscapes, seemingly untouched by humans, but at the same time suggestively apocalyptic, and subtle chang...
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In A Beautiful And Quiet Location
Austria / 2015 / 13 minutes / NR
dir. Lukas Marxt, Jakub Vrba
At first, not much can be heard apart from the chirping of birds and sounds of the wind. The buzzing of airplane motors then mixes in, and sounds that must come from the man behind the camera. This reference to...
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Circular Inscription
Austria, Germany / 2016 / 7 minutes / NR
dir. Lukas Marxt
A mountain range on the horizon separates the cloudy sky from the dusty desert soil of the El Mirage Dry Lake, with the sounds of a distant roar. In the long shot, the gaze shows a detail of the Californian Moj...
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Double Dawn
Austria, Germany / 2014 / 30 minutes / NR
dir. Lukas Marxt
A 30-minute static shot, in which silence spreads: an illuminated factory area on the horizon, otherwise just blackness, stretched flat and wide like a canvas. The cycle of the sun dictates the dramaturgy of th...
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It Seems To Be Loneliness But It Is Not
Austria, Germany / 2013 / 37 minutes / NR
dir. Lukas Marxt
Humans are social beings. But what are they when isolated and lonely? In "It Seems To Be Loneliness But It Is Not" a director puts himself in situation by going to a place where human encounters and exchange ca...
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Shadowland
Austria / 2017 / 47 minutes / NR
dir. Lukas Marxt, Vanja Smiljanic
During a solar eclipse, time becomes compressed. The few moments the moon takes to edge its way between the sun and earth disturb the normal cycle of day and night, under certain circumstances even throwing a p...
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Black Rain White Scars
Austria, Germany / 2014 / 8 minutes / NR
dir. Lukas Marxt
The film depicts a twilight of reality. With the steady shot of a Gotham-like cityscape, a director guides us between vestiges of visionary architecture and narrow planted apartment buildings. As audience is se...
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