The Arrival
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The first of Peter Tscherkassky's Cinemascope trilogy of short films is a fragmented glimpse of images pulsating with chaotic rhythm as they fight white margins for room in his palette. Mirrored frames being split by white margin and trying to reassemble again like the poles of a magnet, a train approaching station and colliding with itself in white-hot blistering chaos.
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Peter Tscherkassky Director
United States release March 29, 2001 · Produced in Austria · Original title L'arrivée
Production
sixpackfilm
Production
Austria
Produced in
Languages
Original title
L'arrivée
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Sweden · October 20, 1999
Premiere · Uppsala International Short Film Festival
United States · March 29, 2001
Premiere · Wisconsin Film Festival
Germany
October 10, 2020 · Premiere · Underdox Documentary and Experimental Film Festival
Greece
September 17, 2002 · Premiere · Athens Film Festival
November 13, 2009 · Premiere · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Poland
July 20, 2012 · Premiere · New Horizons Film Festival
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