I first encountered Algiers through the childhood memories of a Palestinian friend who grew up there until she was fourteen years old.1 Algeria became her family’s home in the 1970s, when the Israeli authorities revoked her father’s residency after he had spent some time studying abroad.2 For many years, he was denied access to his […]
PETER TSCHERKASSKY / What is cinema?
Cinema can be discussed, debated, deconstructed – but you can never pin it down, in the sense conveyed by the latin root “dēfīnīre”, to delimit. What cinema really means can only be experienced in the cinema. This is why I’ve tried to create films over the past 40 years that transcend words, spoken or written, […]