Overview
A 15 part film featuring scenes from Xianghe, running from the mundane to the surreal: people parade in opera costumes, slaughter pigs in public and dine on the fields; they bury the dead and get married, tickling the bride and groom, everything done without speech. Sitting somewhere between intimate personal reels and detached ethnographic records, the work creates a simultaneous sense of immersion and distance – of the type you might associate with end-of-life flashbacks. Yang gives nostalgia a fantastic, mystical bent, as if to suggest that to revel in memory is a creative act.
Director and cast
More films
The Congress of Penguins (1993)
Documentary · N/A
The real place where the penguin congress takes place is also the most fictional place on this planet where you can stand on your own two legs. Here, even the animals can talk. This land of dreams and nightmares is called Antarctica. In this desert of ice surrounded by a stormy sea, a few dozen human beings also live. Using sophisticat...
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
Hugo Koblet - The Charming Cyclist (2010)
Documentary · Drama · N/A
Zurich-born Hugo Koblet was the first international cycling star of the post-war period. He was a stylist on the bicycle and in life, and a huge heartthrob. Koblet had a meteoric rise and won the Giro d'Italia in 1950. Once he had reached the zenith of his career, Koblet was put under pressure by overly ambitious officials and ended up...
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Director
- Daniel von Aarburg
- Cast
- Manuel Löwensberg, Hanspeter Müller, Max Rüdlinger
The Shelter (2014)
Documentary · N/A
It is winter at an emergency shelter for the homeless in Lausanne. Every night at the door of this little-known basement facility the same entry ritual takes place, resulting in confrontations which can sometimes turn violent. Those on duty at the shelter have the difficult task of “triaging the poor”: the women and children first, the...
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Director
- Fernand Melgar
Per l'amor di Dio (2013)
Documentary · N/A
Synopsis - For god's sake Isabella and Nando are two militant atheists. They live in Italy, a country where the Church still plays a strong political role. T hey are among the 4000 members of UAAR (Union Atheists Agnostics Rationalists), an association that keenly defends the fundamentals of the secular state, giving trouble even to t...
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
Chris the Swiss (2018)
Animation · Documentary · N/A
Croatia, 7th of January 1992: In the middle of the war, a young journalist's body is discovered dressed in the uniform of an international mercenary group. Twenty years later, his cousin Anja Kofmel investigates his story.
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Cast
- Joel Basman, Milton Welsh, Megan Gay
Comments
Talk about the film with other members