IFFR 2009

Peter Liechti

The film maker Liechti and the artist Signer have worked together for years and here it provides beautiful cinema.

Signals: Peter Liechti

Ausflug ins Gebirg

Peter Mettler

Sensitive film diary with footage and gamelan music collected between 1990 and 1992 in Bali.

Balifilm

Derek Jarman

The master of the subtle charm of Super-8 film; intimate authenticity and youthful lustre in images mixed with music by Brian Eno.

Glitterbug

The construction of a new dam motivated Liechti to investigate all the implications of this development in a cinematographic way.

Grimsel - Ein Augenschein

What starts as a travelogue (or basically three) about Liechti’s attempt to distract attention from the fact that he'd stopped smoking through major cross-country walking tours leads to an unusual form of cinematographic self-reflection.

Hans im Glück - Drei Versuche, das Rauchen loszuwerden

The result of a battle to exhaustion in which the Koch-Schütz-Studer ensemble played two sets every evening for 30 days in a row. The musical marathon is compressed into a cinematographic adventure lasting just over an hour.

Hardcore Chambermusic

A Hole in the Hat

Alongside being a music film with musicians Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl, this is also a so-called travelogue. Against the background of the music, Liechti takes the viewer along on a breathtaking trip through eastern Switzerland.

Kick that Habit

Herbert Achternbusch

Shocking radical family portrait filmed in Super-8. In 18 minutes, an essential and personal cinematographic poem by Herbert Achternbusch.

Das Kind ist Tot

Peter Fischli

David Weiss

Famous, often copied but never equalled short film. The film makers/artists create a cause-and-effect story with a variety of objects and an unavoidable physical logic.

Der Lauf der Dinge

Kawase Naomi

Intimate portrait of a dying friend. Not always easy to watch, but a very moving image of approaching death, albeit painful.

Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom

Winter drama in sombre black-and-white is reminiscent of film noir, with conventions such as voice-over, a femme fatale, unrelenting narrative logic, dissonant music and even humour...

Marthas Garten

Wang Wei

A small camera in a remote country village: long shots in which village life passes as in a play. Director Wang Wei feels one of the villagers and cannot do otherwise than film everyday life in such a way that viewers also feel as if they are in the middle of the village.

My Village

Musicians from all corners of the world are brought together in the movie in an unbelievable mix of music styles. Against the background of breathtaking nature, exciting musical confrontations ensue.

Namibia Crossings

Nicolas Humbert

Werner Penzel

Magnificent chronicle of the preparation for a concert by the infamous free jazz group 'Art Ensemble of Chicago', in the studio, into the very heart of the music. During the magic rehearsal period, the directors manage to capture the moments of grace as well as the moments of emptiness.

Null Sonne No Point

Matthew Walker

'Hello? God?' British humour at its best: on a boring rainy day, a bored man wants to phone God. Short animated poem.

Operator

Original cinematographic reflection on the myths of the northern lights.

Picture of Light

Johannes Nyholm

Live action film about an obsessed animator and a film crew doing a documentary on him. For more than ten years, the artist has worked on films with a little clay figure called Puppetboy. Following the artist behind the scenes, the film crew discover a very intimate relationship between him and his protagonist.

Puppetboy

Alongside a portrait of the artist Roman Signer, in this work Liechti and Signer seek (and find) each other in the brilliant cinematographic translations of Signer's artistic interventions. The result is an acoustic and visually breathtaking synthesis.

Signers Koffer - Unterwegs mit Roman Signer

When in an inhospitable forest a hunter comes across the mummified body of a man, at first it's not clear what happened. Until it becomes apparent that he recorded the process of his death with an almost macabre precision.

The Sound of Insects - Record of a Mummy

What starts as the innocent end of the winter landscape and the advent of green loses its innocence and slowly changes into a wild swirling stream.

Tauwetter

A sharp political essay in which Liechti aims his arrows at the media circus that surrounded the summit conference between Gorbachev and Reagan in Geneva.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025