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«FATHER'S GARDEN – The Decline of the Occident» (project, working title) |
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The picture I have of my parents originated from my boyhood. And until today I have never tried to put this to the test. "Father's garden" is the attempt to revise my personal history. It is not the portrait of my parents, but a densely woven poetic film about feelings representative of a whole epoch, the end of which was rung in long ago. Das Bild, das ich mir von meinen Eltern mache, stammt im Grund aus meiner Jugendzeit. Und bis heute habe ich noch nie versucht, dieses Bild einer ehrlichen Prüfung zu unterziehen. "Vaters Garten" ist der Versuch einer persönlichen Geschichtsrevision. Kein Portrait meiner Eltern, sondern die filmische Verdichtung eines Lebensgefühls - stellvertretend für das Lebensgefühl einer ganzen Epoche, deren Ende längst eingeläutet wurde. |
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DVD now available! DIEGO COSTA, Slant Magazine / Film Revue / DECEMBER 21, 2010: "...Economical and violent like a psychoanalyst's words in a good session..." Ron Wilkinson Dec 23, 2010 www.monstersandcritics.com: "...If you want “Harry Potter,” go see “Harry Potter.” If you want to see something that is capable of opening up the multitude of sensory channels that you have and do not use, see this film. If you do not understand it now, to paraphrase Peggy Guggenheim, try again in twenty years. The movie is a death poem... It does not make any difference whether the story is true or not. If it is a purely fictional narrative on one person’s view of life or death that would be good enough; quite an accomplishment, actually... Although some will compare the film to Andy Warhol’s cinematographic essay of his friend sleeping, it is more like the recent film festival feature “Robinson in Ruins.” “Robinson” is also a spoken essay (narrated by Vanessa Redgrave) delivered in the context of photographic images... The story is one of man’s place in civilization, plumbing concepts of control and security. Liechti’s film exhibits a man who has complete control but, in exercising it, gives up life." myfilmblog.com, 15, December 2010: "...Winner of the European Film Academy Documentary 2009 award "for its skillful exploration of minimalistic means to create an extraordinary visual story between life and death." A profound inquiry into the art of representation, Peter Liechti's The Sound of Insects probes the ever-elusive and mystifying line between life and death..." kino-zeit.de: "... Peter Liechtis Film ist ein Meisterwerk voller Schönheit und Grausamkeit, das sich zwischen allen Stühlen und Genres bewegt – ein schlichtweg unerhörter, noch nie gesehener Film, eine Grenzerfahrung von unglaublichem Ausmaß... ...Peter Liechtis Film kombiniert Bilder von hoher Symbolkraft, die an die frühen Meister des Kinos wie Carl Theodor Dreyer und an diverse Regisseure des filmischen deutschen Expressionismus erinnern, mit dokumentarisch-nüchternen Fragmenten zu einem collagenartigen Bilderteppich, der von einem ebenso diffus gewebten Soundgebilde voller Düsternis kongenial ergänzt wird... ...Das Summen der Insekten – Bericht einer Mumie ist Wahn, Rausch, Dokumentation eines Sterbens, vielleicht sogar des Sterbens schlechthin, ein gewaltiger und gnadenlos subjektiver, gleichsam körperloser Essay über eine radikale Weltverweigerung, das von der ersten bis zur letzten Minuten fesselt, fasziniert und verstört und sich dem Gehirn des Zuschauers förmlich einbrennt... ...Er ist und bleibt ein Meisterwerk." (Joachim Kurz) "...a stunning rapprochement of a fictional text, which itself is based upon a true event. A cinematic manifesto for life, challenged by the main character's radical renunciation of life itself." "...eine sehr persönliche Annäherung an einen fiktionalen Text, welcher wiederum auf einer wahren Begebenheit beruht. Ein filmisches Manifest für das Leben, herausgefordert durch den radikalen Verzicht darauf." "...une approche très personnelle sur un texte de fiction, lui-même basé sur des faits réels. Un manifeste cinématographique en faveur de la vie - suscité par un renoncement radical à exister." Awards: - EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY FILM AWARD 2009, Prix ARTE - MILLENIUM AWARD 2009, Planete Doc Review Film Festival, Warsaw - PRIX CAMERA-STYLO 2009, RIDM, Montréal - ZÜRICH FILM AWARD 2009, Zürich - SWISS FILM AWARD 2010 for the best film music (Norbert Möslang) - Nominated for SPOTLIGHT AWARD 2010 by the CINEMA EYE HONORS, NYC - Nominated for SWISS FILM AWARD 2010 - CINEMA EYE AWARD, New York, Jan 19, 2011 (for Composer Norbert Möslang) Festivals: - International Première: ROTTERDAM IFF 2009, Official Selection / filmmaker in focus - Swiss Première: VISIONS DU REEL 2009, Nyon, International Competition - North American Première: HOT DOCS 2009, Canadian Int. Documentary Festival, Int. competition - Polish Première: Planete Doc Review Film Festival, Warsaw - US Première: SILVERDOCS, Sterling World Competition, Silverspring Maryland (Washington DC) - French Première: Festival International du Film de LA ROCHELLE, Ici et Ailleurs. - Belgium Première: L'AGE D'OR PRIZE, Belgium Royale Film Archive, Brussels - Czech Première: KARLOVY VARY IFF, International Competition - Austrian Première: Viennale 2009, main programme - Lithuania: SUNDAY DOX - STUDIO NOMINUM - Israel: Jerusalem IFF - Slovenia: Ljubljana DFF, - UK: Leeds IFF - Germany: Dok Leipzig - Germany: Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest - Germany: European Film Academy - Europäische Filmwoche Ruhr, Dec. 2009 - Denmark: CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary FF - Denmark: Copenhagen International FF - Canada: Vancouver IFF - Canada: RIDM Montréal - Sweden: Göteborg IFF - Poland: Era New Horizon IFF, Wroclav - Norway: Bergen IFF - Norway: The Norwegian Short Film Festival - Kosova: DokuFest, Prizren, - Chile: SANFIC IFF, Santiago de Chile - Finland: DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary FF - South Corea: DMZ Korean International Documentary FF - South Corea: INDIE Space 2010 - Estonia: Docpoint Tallin, 2010 - Greece: Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2010 - Switzerland: Solothurner Filmtage 2010 - USA: SXSW 2010, South by Southwest Film Festival, Austin Texas, official selection - France: Signes de nuit, 2010 - France: Festival O.F.N.I. / Nyktalop Mélodie 2010 - France: La Rochelle IFF 2010, official selection - Croatia: ZagrebDox 2010, official competition - Serbia: Beldocs International Feature Documentary Film Festival 2010, official selection - Portugal: IndieLisboa 2010, official selection - Portugal: Doclisboa Festival 2010, official selection - USA: NaFF, Nashville Film Festival 2010, "Major Film Screening in the World Cinema" - USA: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival 2010, official selection - United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi, ADA, Anasy Doc Award Festival, international competition - Italy: Trento International Film Festival 2010, official competition - Ireland: Guth Gafa Documentary Film Festival 2010, official selection - Germany: International Documentary Film Festival Munich 2010, official selection - Albania: Tirana International Film Festival 2010 - Cyprus: Lemesos International Documentary Festival 2010, official selection - Greece: Kos International Health Film Festival “Ippokratis” 2010, official competition - Belgium: Cinema Zuid 2010, official selection - South Africa: Encounters SA International Documentary Film Festival 2010, official selection - Germany: Nonfiktionale 2010 Bad Aibling, official competition - China: CIFF Independent Film Festival in Nanjing, official selection - USA: Cinema Eye Honour 2011, New York - Germany: MaerzMusik 2011, Berlin |
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