28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Happy-End
Happy-End

Happy-End

director: Peter Tscherkassky
original title: Happy-End
country: Austria
year: 1996
running time: 11 min.

synopsis

A joyful found-footage collage in which a man and a woman celebrate, laugh, and dance amidst champagne and a Sachertorte. The editing and image maniplation combine to create an idyllic sense of joy from being together. The footage, which is ordered from end to beginning, culminates in a flutter of dancing film frames.

biography

Thoughtful found-footage and collages, Austria’s Peter Tscherkassky (1958) reveals the structured nature of film and how it is limited by the perforated frame. In 2014, he gave a master class at the Ji.hlava IDFF.

more about film

director: Peter Tscherkassky
script: Peter Tscherkassky
editing: Peter Tscherkassky
Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Creative Europe Media
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms