Video store Zurich
The video store Zurich is a 1976 co- founded film and video production company in Zurich ( Switzerland ).
history
From 1980 the members documented the Zurich Open House riots from the perspective of the youth movement and the resulting alternative culture in the economic metropolis of Zurich . The Züri brännt compilation is a key work in the field of political video. A cross-section through the works of the historically significant founding phase of the video store is shown in Freeze. Documentation of a story: Videoladen shown in 1976-85 .
Today the video store is a production and post-production service company that rents film and video equipment.
The recordings made by the video store during the period of youth unrest were collected and digitized from 1997 - together with recordings from the Basel video cooperative and Container TV Bern - on behalf of the Memoriav Foundation in order to save them from collapse. The recordings can be viewed in the Swiss Federal Archives and in the Swiss Social Archives .
The video store is part of the socially and politically motivated media work in the 1970s and 1980s. This was favored on the one hand by the social climate ( movement of 1968 ) and on the other hand by the emergence of easy-to-transport, affordable video cameras. In Germany there were institutions comparable to the Medienoperative Berlin, Medienladen Hamburg or Medienwerkstatt Freiburg (see video group ).
Productions
- 1979: Video uf de Gass
- 1980: Züri is burning (Thomas Krempke, Ronnie Wahli, Markus Sieber, Marcel Müller)
- 1981: No time to rest - AJZ in the autumn of 81
- 1981: 3 actions
- 1984: cuts (Josy Meier, Pierre Mennel, Peters Krempke)
- 1984: 1 love song: house-to-house fight in Zurich
- 1986: Freeze. Documentation of a story: Videoladen 1976–85
- 1989: I like to live, I like to die (Claudia Acklin)
- 1994: Hunger for Life (Claudia Acklin)
Members
Many well-known Swiss filmmakers have been members of the video store in Zurich over the course of their careers:
- Christoph Schaub (from 1981 to 1992)
- Samir
- Werner Schweizer
- Martin Witz (from 1976 to 1982)
literature
- Sieber Markus: Media work as a form of social action. On the work of video loading in the youth movement. In: disturbance of the peace. Work with video. Working group CINEMA. Zurich, summer 1980. CINEMA , number 3. Bern 1980. pp. 10-22.
- Markus Sieber, Patrizia Loggia, Thomas Krempke: Züri is burning. the book for the film with many beautiful pictures and / or sandstorms in the icy desert. Videoladen, Zurich 1981 (brochure).
- Jochen Becker: Metro shock. In: taz , September 21, 2005; about Züri brännt , the founding phase of the video store and the Zurich youth unrest.
Web links
- Web presence of the video shop Zurich
- Videoladen Zürich in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Heinz Nigg: "Express yourself": About the role of video creation in the youth movement of the 80s.
- Carsten Does: Interview with Werner ‹Swiss› Schweizer, co-founder of the video shop in Zurich. (PDF; 15 kB) 1999
- Films from the video store Zurich in the two thousand and one lexicon of international film
- City in Motion: A collection of video documents about the youth riots of the 1980s and their cultural environment . Memoriav
- Holdings: Video archive “City in Motion” in the finding aids of the Swiss Social Archives