Signals: Peter Liechti
Overview of films
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Ausflug ins Gebirg
The film maker Liechti and the artist Signer have worked together for years and here it provides beautiful cinema.
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Das Kind ist Tot
Shocking radical family portrait filmed in Super-8. In 18 minutes, an essential and personal cinematographic poem by Herbert Achternbusch.
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A Hole in the Hat
A film on the installation Beuys’ Voice – A Hole in the Hat (1987) in the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen in which Nam June Paik plays the piano
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Marthas Garten
Winter drama in sombre black-and-white is reminiscent of film noir, with conventions such as voice-over, a femme fatale, unrelenting narrative logi
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Puppetboy
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 wit
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Hardcore Chambermusic
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 marat
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Théâtre de l’espérance
A sharp political essay in which Liechti aims his arrows at the media circus that surrounded the summit conference between Gorbachev and Reagan in
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Kick that Habit
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
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Tauwetter
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.
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Hans im Glück – Drei Versuche, das Rauchen loszuwerden
What starts as a travelogue (or basically three) about Liechti’s attempt to distract attention from the fact that he’d stopped smoking throug
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Roman Signer, Zündschnur
Starting from the Appenzell railway station, a fuse (German: Zündschnur) was laid along the 20.06-km-long Appenzell – Gais – St. Gall r