The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg

Movie
Original title	The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg
original language	Swiss German , German , English , Mandarin
Publishing year	2016
length	93 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Michael Schindhelm
production	Marcel Hoehn
music	Feng Mengbo, Peter Bräker
camera	Filip Zumbrunn
cut	Marina Wernli
occupation
	Uli Sigg; Ai Weiwei; Cao Chong'en; Cao Fei; Pierre de Meuron; Hans-Peter Fallegger; Fang Lijun; Feng Mengbo; Marianne Heller; Hu Xiaoyuan; Jacques Herzog; Long long; Anna Liu; Victoria Lu; Alexandra Munroe; Lars Nittve; Hans Ulrich Obrist; Qiu Xiaofei; Erwin Schurtenberger; Shao fan; Rita Sigg; Marc Spiegler; Wang Guangyi; Xiao Li; Max Zellweger; Zeng Fanzhi;

The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg is a 2016 documentary by filmmaker Michael Schindhelm . At the opening of the Museum of Visual Culture M + in Hong Kong in 2019, 1,500 works of contemporary Chinese art from Uli Sigg's collection , which have been donated to the museum, will be presented. The collection is considered to be the most important of its kind in the world. The film traces how the Swiss Uli Sigg was already involved in the first projects in the late 1970s with which China opened up economically to the West and later promoted networking among Chinese artists through his work as a collector.

action

The documentary follows the relationship between Uli Sigg and contemporary Chinese society over the stages of his professional career - from developing the first joint venture for the Schindler Group to his time as the Swiss ambassador in Beijing, to his return to Switzerland and the Cooperation with the M + Museum in Hong Kong. The connection between Sigg and the transformations of the Chinese art scene is conveyed by protagonists such as Wang Guangyi , Fang Lijun and Ai Weiwei - in addition to Uli Sigg, he was already a protagonist in the documentary Bird's Nest - Herzog & de Meuron in China . Together with the archive recordings from Uli Sigg's time in China, they provide an insight into the complex relationship between state and art that continues to this day.

film Festival

The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg premiered on February 9th at Arthouse Le Paris, Zurich. The Asian premiere took place in Hong Kong on March 21st. The documentary has so far participated in several international film festivals. These include the 69 ° Festival del film Locarno , 35th Vancouver International Film Festival , Lo schermo dell'arte Film Festival in Florence, Festival do Rio and the Art Film Festival in Beirut. Participation in the 52nd Solothurn Film Festival followed from January 19 to 26 .

criticism

"The documentary" The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg "by theater director Michael Schindhelm [...] offers fascinating insights from a Westerner who, like no other, knows this change firsthand." Peter A. Fischer: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 19 2016

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Individual evidence

^ Certificate of release for The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 53471 (VV)).

[FSK-1] Certificate of release for The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 53471 (VV)).