INSTRUCTIONS FOR A LIGHT AND SOUND MACHINE

by Peter TSCHERKASSKY
2005 / 35mm / b&w / sound / 1S / 17' 00

The hero of Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine is easy to identify. Walking down the street unknowingly, he suddenly realizes that he is not only subject to the gruesome moods of several spectators but also at the mercy of the filmmaker. He defends himself heroically, but is condemned to the gallows, where he dies a filmic death through a tearing of the film itself.
Our hero then descends into Hades, the realm of shades. Here, in the underground of cinematography, he encounters innumerable printing instructions, the means whereby the existence of every filmic image is made possible. In other words, our hero encounters the conditions of his own
possibility, the conditions of his very existence as a filmic shade.

Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine is an attempt to transform a Roman Western into a Greek tragedy. (Peter Tscherkassky)

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screen 2,35 - Scope (single screen)
speed 24 fps
sound optical sound
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speed 24 fps
sound sound
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