Signals: Peter Liechti
Overview of films
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Glitterbug
The master of the subtle charm of Super-8 film; intimate authenticity and youthful lustre in images mixed with music by Brian Eno.
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Balifilm
Sensitive film diary with footage and gamelan music collected between 1990 and 1992 in Bali.
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Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
Intimate portrait of a dying friend. Not always easy to watch, but a very moving image of approaching death, albeit painful.
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Der Lauf der Dinge
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 unavoidab
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The Sound of Insects – Record of a Mummy
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 tha
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Namibia Crossings
Musicians from all corners of the world are brought together in the movie in an unbelievable mix of music styles. Against the background of breathtaki
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My Village
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 can
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Grimsel – Ein Augenschein
The construction of a new dam motivated Liechti to investigate all the implications of this development in a cinematographic way.
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Operator
‘Hello? God?’ British humour at its best: on a boring rainy day, a bored man wants to phone God. Short animated poem.
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Null Sonne No Point
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 o
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Signers Koffer – Unterwegs mit Roman Signer
Alongside a portrait of the artist Roman Signer, in this work Liechti and Signer seek (and find) each other in the brilliant cinematographic translati
