Urs Graf (filmmaker)

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Urs Graf (* 1940 in Olten ) is a Swiss filmmaker .

Life

After training as a graphic artist-lithographer, Graf initially worked in graphics and industrial design from 1961. From 1967 to 1971 he worked at Turnus-Film AG (screenplay, direction, animation, editing) and made his first films.

From 1975 Graf was a member of the Zurich Film Collective, which he co-founded and was part of it until its dissolution in 2018. From 1983 to 2005 he lectured on film theory and practice at the ETH Zurich .

Graf was also involved in various organizations and institutions in the film industry, for example as a board member of the Swiss Film Center (1984–94), as the initiator and organizer of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm” of the Association of Swiss Film Designers VSFG (1990–98) or as a member of the Focal Foundation (Foundation for further training in film and audiovisual, from 1996).

Filmography

  • 2017: good days
  • 2010: Annette Schmucki: Hagel und Haut
  • 2007: Jürg Frey: Inaudible Time
  • 2006: Urs Peter Schneider: 36 existences
  • 2002: Expoagricole (with Hans Stürm )
  • 2001: Islamic everyday life in Zurich (with Marlies Graf Dätwyler )
  • 1999: The time with Kathrin
  • 1993: The color of the sound of the city image (with Elisabeth Wandeler-Deck and Alfred Zimmerlin )
  • 1991: Seriat (with Marlies Graf Dätwyler)
  • 1987: something else
  • 1982: paths and walls
  • 1979: colleagues
  • 1978: Cinéma mort ou vif? (with Hans Stürm and Mathias Knauer )
  • 1973: Jobs at customs (with Marlies Graf Dätwyler)
  • 1971: A line is a line is a line
  • 1971: Isidor Huber and the aftermath (with Marlies Graf Dätwyler)
  • 1970: e.g. uniforms (with Marlies Graf Dätwyler)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pascal Blum. The end of a Zurich institution. Tages-Anzeiger, June 29, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Count, Urs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Olten