Die verborgene Fiktion comprises a special selection from documentary films from the last three decades. In this film, Murer expounds on the hypothesis that documentaries can comprise moments so bizarre and fantastic that no film-maker would dare use anything like them in a fiction film. He calls on the viewer to regard his collage of documentary fragments as a feature film. The result is tragi-comic and disconcerting.îDie verborgene Fiktion has been praised as one of the most successful parts of the project. According to critic Michel Egger, the film focuses on desire for and fear of the other, the unknown. As a result the film comprises many shots of fringe figures and outsiders, shots of which Murer instantly recognises the fantastic quality.
A plain and pugnacious choice for sentimentality, kitsch and melodrama (in which the hand of scenario writer Eric de Kuyper is recognisable), which destroys the…
Schmid’s contribution is made up of occasionally very old amateur films, often-touristy family films about winter-sport holidays (not called such at that time) for affluent…
A striking contribution because the historical period which Michel Soutter covers coincides with his own lifetime. Soutter was, alongside Alain Tanner and Claude Goretta, one…
