Outer Space (1999)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

Peter Tscherkassky

Writer:

Peter Tscherkassky (writer)

Genre:

Animation | Short

Plot:

A premonition of a horror film, lurking danger: A house - at night, slightly tilted in the camera's view...

Plot Keywords:

Found Footage | Experimental Film

Awards:

5 wins

Cast

Barbara Hershey

...

(archive footage) (uncredited)

Runtime:

10 min

Country:

Austria

Language:

None

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Movie Connections:

Edited into Experiments in Terror (2003) (V)

Programming the Psychodrills

Peter Tscherkassky is an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker who works exclusively with found footage. All of his work is done with film and heavily edited in the darkroom, rather than relying on technological modes. This is his second short film in his Cinemascope trilogy, and it is a longer version of the previous entry, Le Arrivee, with all the skullf-ckery and aural destruction amplified tenfold. It starts off with a mystifying shot of a house bathed in stark noirish atmosphere pulsating and trembling as though with energy of its own, like something culled from a Robbe-Grillet film and pushed through a meat-grinder. A woman enters the house. The house soon transforms into a swirling hell, as though pulled and stretched into another dimension with time and space ripping apart in the seams. At some point we're looking at formless chaos, wave after wave of white noise washing over the screen, rolls of film tortured, an epileptic symphony of power electronics conjuring sheer cacodemony. It is a strange thing to behold, this nine minute short, definitely harsh and uninviting but worth a watch for the adventurous viewer.