How does a child become an actor And how does the acting profession influence his or her relationship to the world In Ursula Meier’s documentary teenage Kacey Mottet Klein answers these very questions. Following the road from the playground to the film set, the film presents a study of how mind and body mature before the camera lens.
The Winter Olympics of 1928 in St. Moritz were the first professionally recorded on film. Fanck created a new type of Olympic chronicle: now it was a regular news coverage intended for full-fledged evening screenings at theatres. Although he had only tow cameras he managed to shoot 30000 meters of film which he used to create a poetic spectacle filled with free play of fantasy ...
In the sixties the painter and sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle started her career with shooting paintings, reliefs that were fired at with paint bags. She became famous and popular for her Nanas, colorful sculptures of big and cheerful women, and for the cooperation with Jean Tinguely. The frame of this film is a tour through her tarot garden in Tuscany.
After 40 years Alain Tanner again travels to the port of Genoa, where he worked for a shipping company as a 22-year-old. On the back of his own memories he depicts the rough world of the dockworkers, another of those trades that has undergone fundamental changes as a result of recessions, modernisation and liberalisation. “The visual impression of the harbour and the city has c...
Based on the research of historian Maienberg, the film examines the fate of one of the 17 traitors executed during WW II for opposing local bigwigs against Nazi Germany.
A cinepoem about nomadic life by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel
When, in 1947, a portion of Punjab province was assigned to the newly created Pakistani State, Albert Mayer began planning a new capital for the portion which remained in the possession of India. Le Corbusier had been responsible since the 1950s for general planning and, more particularly, for large-scale buildings typical of the governmental sector. A year after the death of L...
