Overview of articles
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Les amateurs
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…Published on: -
Buster’s bedroom
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Ailleurs et ici
Alain Klarer’s contribution is about the difficult relationship which Swiss film-makers had and still have with Swiss reality. Klarer uses as Leitmotif in his films…Published on: -
Les débordants
A remarkable collection of examples of dissolute, free, experimental and avant-garde films. Hassler added dream and fantasy sequences from more conventional films to fragments from…Published on: -
Dirt site
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I was on mars
A small-scale comedy shot in New York on location about a ‘stranger in a strange world’. There are three main characters: the cousins Alio and…Published on: -
Les petites illusions
In Les petites illusions Markus Imhoof is mainly interested in what Swiss cinema has not shown; the gaps in its memory. His contribution to Le…Published on: -
Les émotions hèlvétiques
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…Published on: -
Alchemia
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…Published on: -
Die Liebe zum Tod
With his selection of film fragments Thomas Koerfer evokes the morbid and moralistic atmosphere of the Slump. As an innocent and comic proof of this,…Published on: