Gitta Gsell

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Gitta Gsell (* 1953 in Zurich ) is a Swiss film director .

Live and act

Gitta Gsell's filmography includes feature films and documentaries. With Bödälä - Dance The Rhythm , a documentary film dealing with the magic of percussive dance, the director won the Prix du Public, the audience award of the Solothurn Film Festival , the most important retrospective of Swiss filmmaking. The director was nominated for the Swiss Film Prize for the 1999 feature film Propellerblume . In 2005 her film about the Swiss jazz icon Irène Schweizer was released in cinemas.

Gitta Gsell lived in New York from 1979 to 1989 and was a founding member of the theater group DIG. The plays Clichés , a 40-minute multimedia spectacle and Desert Island Games , a 70-minute multimedia theater, were shown in various New York clubs and theaters such as Danceteria, Pyramid, NoSeNo, New York Theater Ensemble, BACA, Re-Cher -Chez listed.

Gitta Gsell originally comes from photography and art . In addition to various group exhibitions in New York, she showed a solo exhibition with large-format photographs in the Center PasquArt Bienne in 1992 .

Gitta Gsell is a member of the Swiss Film Academy and the Swiss Directing Association, and she is also a member of the board of art-tv.ch, the Swiss cultural television network.

education

  • 1977–1979: F + F School for Experimental Design, Zurich
  • 1980–1982: School of Visual Arts, New York: Bachelor of Fine Arts
  • 1982–1984: Hunter College, New York: Master of Fine Arts in Combined Media

Filmography (selection)

  • 1981: Goodbye
  • 1984: ART
  • 1985: Always this eternity
  • 1987: Don't Stand On The Ocean
  • 1990: Cornelia Forster - artist
  • 1990: Perception / Tension
  • 1994: Uma passagem / moved
  • 1995: Lilu in the dance bar (short film)
  • 1997: Propeller Flower
  • 1999: Virus-L (short film)
  • 2004: Lilo & Fredi
  • 2005: a few moments N
  • 2005: Irène Schweizer
  • 2010: Bödälä - Dance The Rhythm
  • 2013: Carom - Arnold Odermatt and his world
  • 2016: Melody of Noise - how noise becomes music

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personal data
SURNAME Gsell, Gitta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich