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Peter Tscherkassky, Happy End, 1996

From an amateur home movie of an unknown Austrian couple, who record their passing years through images of celebration. Tscherkassky re-animates not only the frames of found footage, but also the couples lives as abstract individuals symbolising the common experience of an existence which relentlessly moves through rituals such as birthdays, weddings, public holidays and ultimately death itself.