Turning Life - How my dad tried to hold onto happiness
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Turning Life - How my dad tried to hold onto happiness |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 77 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eva Vitija |
| script | Eva Vitija |
| production |
Daniel Howald , Chantal Millès |
| music | Christian García |
| camera | Stefan Dux |
| cut |
Natascha Cartolaro , Fabian Kaiser |
| occupation | |
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Joschy Scheidegger , Claudia Freund, Kaspar Scheidegger, Dominique Scheidegger, Cornelia Bernoulli , Antoinette Poli | |
Turning Life - How My Father Tried to Capture Happiness is a Swiss documentary from 2015. It was nominated for the Swiss Film Prize in 2017 as best documentary .
Eva Vitija received a film about her own life from her father Joschy Scheidegger when she came of age. The obsessive way of documenting his daughter's life has a traumatic effect on Eva. After his death she manages to take over his film archive and his camera. This is how Eva gains the intimacy that her father had taken away with his camera.
The film is a psychoanalytically motivated criticism of the Home movie and “a brilliantly told” autobiographical journey of discovery.
Web links
- Turn Life - Like my father tried to hold the luck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
- Stefan Gubser: “Turn your life around” - when your father can't help it. In: Swiss Radio and Television , May 4, 2016.
- Hannes Nüsseler: « Turning life»: My father, the camera hero . In: TagesWoche , April 27, 2016.