Found Footage in Peter Tscherkassky's Films

Peter Tscherkassky is one of the most prominent contemporary artists in the field of experimental and avant-garde film. In today’s media sphere, he operates in a completely analogue manner – he still uses the materiality and techniques of film stock, which he interprets as a creative medium even in the 21st century. Although he has gone through many phases of creation, with the only apparent constant being his affinity for theoretically analysing the film medium through (re)production, his films are today associated with the aesthetic current of found footage films. Through the use of found materials, selected images are dislocated, decontextualised and reappropriated, serving as an insight into the latent ideology of the mechanisms of image production.

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