Gitta Gsell
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
Web links
- Gitta Gsell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gitta Gsell at Swissfilms
- Gitta Gsell on art-tv.ch
- Gitta Gsell in Weltwoche
- Gitta Gsell in the SI
- Gitta Gsell at artfilm.ch
- Trailer and website for Bödälä
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gsell, Gitta |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss film director |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |