The Arrival (L'arrivée) 25 years old

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.

The Arrival poster
The Arrival (25 years)

  • Release day: Wednesday, October 20, 1999
  • Runtime: 3 minutes