Martin Arnold and Peter Tscherkassky are two of the foremost representatives of Austrian experimental cinema. Despite the differences between their working methodologies and the way they use found footage, both Arnold and Tscherkassky seem to want to reveal a whole series of meanings hidden within the audiovisual continuum; things which, somehow, were already there, but which can only be extracted and displayed by means of a process of alteration, aggression and alienation of cinematographic narratives and techniques. This layer of concealed meaning that seems to emerge from the depths of dreams and original images is what we call the “audiovisual unconscious”.
Programme
Passage à l’acte, Martin Arnold, 1993
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy, Martin Arnold, 1998
Outer Space, Peter Tscherkassky, 1999
Instructions for a Light & Sound Machine, Peter Tscherkassky, 2005
DCP screening. Presentation by the filmmakers followed by a debate with the public.
