Roger Walch

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Roger Walch (born January 27, 1965 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss Japanologist , filmmaker and publicist .

He has published articles in NZZ , Tagblatt, Saiten, Asian Studies, Japan Magazin and Kansai Time Out, among others . His subject area is Japanese culture .

life and work

Walch studied Japanese Studies , Ethnology and Sociology at the University of Zurich . After teaching activities at the college of St. Gallen and at the East Asian Institute of the University of Zurich, he headed for two years, the St. Galler cinema "Kinok" and then worked as publishing director and editor in chief of the eastern Swiss cultural magazine "strings".

He attended film courses with the directors Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf (Zurich) and Kanai Katsu (Image Forum Institute, Tokyo ). Walch has lived in Kyoto ( Japan ) since 1998 . After 11 years of teaching at the Goethe Institute, Dōshisha University and the Kyōto Municipal Art University , Walch is mainly active as a filmmaker and publicist .

His documentary "Even a great river begins with a drop of water" won the "Friendship Prize" at the international documentary film festival at Expo 2005 in Japan. In their aesthetic quality and surreal conception, Walch's films are reminiscent of the works of Japanese directors such as Seijun Suzuki or Shūji Terayama . Walch has been playing the piano since he was nine years old and composes the music for his films himself. In 2004, he published a trilingual photo book about his adopted Japanese home, Kyoto.

Awards

  • 1988 Japan Foundation cultural travel grant
  • 1990 Swiss Workers' Literature Prize
  • 2005 Award for the short film "Yuwaku 2" at the CO2 film festival in Osaka
  • 2005 Friendship Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival at Expo 2005 in Japan

Filmography

  • 2002 "Am I nervous?" (11 min), music video (book, camera, music, editing, direction)
  • 2002 "Yuwaku 1" (18 min), short film (script, camera, music, editing, director)
  • 2004 "Yuwaku 2" (21 min), short film (script, camera, music, editing, director)
  • 2005 "Even a great river begins with a drop of water" (30 min), documentary film (script, editing, director)
  • 2005 "Lost Island" (20 min), short film (book, camera, music, editor, director)
  • 2005 "Old - New - East - West" (90 min), music film (camera, editor)
  • 2006 "Yuwaku 3" (35 min), short fiction film (book, music, editor, director)
  • 2009 "Tengu" (63 min), feature film (book, music, editor, director)
  • 2010 "Children of Water" (51 min), feature film (script, editor, director)
  • 2011 "Samurai Spirit and Sword Art in the 21st Century" (18 min), documentary (script, editor, director)

Publications

  • Five years in Kyoto. Photo book. Verlag Saiten, 2004, ISBN 3-9521302-3-0 .
  • Once a year the door is open to everyone. Art in private spaces using the example of Byobu Matsuri in Kyōto. In: Johannes M. Hedinger (Ed.): Apartment Show. Edition Fink, 1998, ISBN 3-906086-22-4

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personal data
SURNAME Walch, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walch, Roger Tibor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss filmmaker, Japanologist, publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen