A young woman, night, an American feature film. She enters a house, a dark corridor, a thriller. While she forces her way into an unknown space together with the viewer, the cinematographic image-producing processes go off the rails. The rooms telescope into each other, become blurred, while the crackling of the cuts and the background noise – the sound of the film material itself – becomes louder and more penetrating. Outer Space, the centerpiece of Tscherkassky's acclaimed CinemaScope Trilogy, is a breathtaking demonstration of the sensual force and shocking intensity unleashed by his analog cinematography: Here, classic Hollywood horror is transformed into a savage, psychoanalytical and cinematic assault.

Loan of the film print with kind support of LightCone.