Italian-speaking Swiss from the Tessin canton form a minority within the Swiss population. In the history of Swiss film, they hardly play any role at all. This make the collection of fragments about the Tessin population in Noi e gli altri all the more curious. Film-makers from the north have often been glad to make use of the landscape of Tessin with its exotic air as a location for feature films. These films focused so much on folklore and tourism that the resultwas a very distorted view of the region. The Tessiners themselves have made little to right this wrong. A film about a well-known yet unknown area including fragments from the work of Jacques Feyder and Leni Riefenstahl.
Fragments were borrowed from no less than forty-three different cartoon films for this dazzling compilation. Alchemia is freed from the rules of narrative and comprises…
A film about the films focusing on the customs of the traditional Emmentaler farmers, mountain dwellers and inhabitants of Zurich. Giger restricted himself to the…
