Film collective Zurich
The Zurich film collective emerged in 1975 from the film distributor Filmcooperative Zürich (now Filomcoopi ) founded in 1972 . The aim was to improve the conditions for making films through a jointly used technical and administrative infrastructure. The main focus of the Zurich Film Collective is on documentary film and auteur films - from feature documentaries to television documentaries and feature films. The film collective is characterized in particular by the intensive collaboration and advice given to the authors in all phases of the work - from developing the projects to creating the shooting templates and evaluating them. In total, the film collective has made 80 films with its members and authors close to it.
The Zurich film collective was dissolved in 2018.
Productions
In the 1970s in particular, the Zurich film collective made many political films (so-called intervention films), such as Kaiseraugst (1975), Lieber Herr Doktor (1977), Beware Makes School (1978), Gösgen (1978), Rothenthurm (1984), Asylum - Switzerland the eye of the needle (1987) but also feature films such as Les petites Fugues ( Little Fluchten ) (1979).
Since 1980, films such as Es ist Kalt in Brandenburg (Killing Hitler) (1980), Disabled Love (1980), The Interrupted Track (1982), Gossliwil (1985), Palaver, Palaver (1990), Konrad Zuse (1990) have been made. , Seriat (1991), Sertschawan (1992), Well Done (1994), Kaddisch (1997), Ghetto (1997), Klingenhof (2005), Nicolas Bouvier - 22 Hospital Street (2005), Bruno Manser - Laki Penan (2007) who have favourited the trilogy Ins Unknown of Music (2010) or Finishing (2015).
Members
In the initial phase there were among others: Renato Berta, Richard Dindo, Marlies Graf-Dätwyler , Urs Graf , Mathias Knauer , Hans Stürm , Rainer Trinkler, Carlo Varini, Luc Yersin. The active core since 2000 consisted of Marianne Bucher, Urs Graf, Mathias Knauer and Rainer Trinkler.
Awards
- 2006: Swiss film award in the special award category of the academy (for concept and editing of the film Klingenhof )
literature
- Toni Holenweger and Werner Mäder: Islands of the future. Self-government in Switzerland , Limmat Verlag (1079).
- Alexandra Schneider. Twenty years of collective filmmaking: what counts is how. From: Die WochenZeitung, October 27, 1995.
- Mathias Knauer: Something from the beginnings of the film cooperative. Anniversary publication of the Zurich Film Cooperative, 1992.
Individual evidence
- ^ The films of the Zurich film collective
- ↑ Pascal Blum. The end of a Zurich institution. Tages-Anzeiger, June 29, 2017