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FAQ: Auditorium ProgramsDiscovering art in diverse and incongruous places is the pretext behind this stellar presentation of documentaries and fictional works from Swiss directors Thomas Imbach, Peter Liechti, Georges Gachot, Christoph Schaub, and Michael Schindhelm, all members of Switzerland's rising independent film community. Featuring six area premieres, the series coincides with a celebration of Swiss music in the Gallery's garden court. Special thanks to the Swiss Arts Council, the Embassy of Switzerland, and SwissFilms for support.
Controversial artist Roman Signer combines eccentric raw materials (bicycles, balloons, water, and furniture) with brute physical forces (pressure, gravity, wind, and fire) to create sculpture that is both provocative and accessible. (Peter Liechti, 1996, 35 mm, Swiss-German with subtitles, 80 minutes)
Three Swiss musicians (Hans Koch, Martin Schuetz, and Fredy Studer) condense a broad spectrum of musical compositions ranging from Béla Bartók to Bob Marley into a unique form they call "hardcore chamber music." (Peter Liechti, 2006, 35 mm, Swiss-German with subtitles, 72 minutes)
Switzerland's star architects, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, travel to their celebrated sites in China: the national stadium for the 2008 summer Olympic games in Beijing and a neighborhood in the provincial town of Jinhua. (Christoph Schaub and Michael Schindhelm, 2008, digital beta, 88 minutes)
followed by Lenz
The career of a young Swiss banker becomes fodder for folk legend when, abruptly, he dives into Lake Constance with a bag full of money. Singing mermaids and other enchanted creatures take over in Imbach's loopy underwater fairy tale. (Thomas Imbach, 2007, 35 mm, English, Swiss-German, and Danish with subtitles, 75 minutes)
The middle-aged filmmaker of Lenz leaves his city life behind to live in the Hautes-Vosges and research the works of nineteenth-century novelist Georg Büchner and romantic poet J.M.R Lenz. The turbulent inner lives of all—filmmaker, poet, and novelist—are mirrored in the jagged beauty of the landscape. (Thomas Imbach, 2006, 35 mm, German with subtitles, 92 minutes)
Georges Gachot in person
The first of two documentaries by Georges Gachot captures the charismatic Brazilian diva Maria Bethânia on stage and in private as her unique chemistry with audiences and other musicians is slowly unveiled. "Samba," Maria intones, "is a sadness that cradles us." (Georges Gachot, 2005, 35 mm, Portuguese with English subtitles, 82 minutes)
preceded by A Little Symphonic Poem
Stunning Argentine pianist Martha Argerich, reputedly uncompromising and unwilling to sustain interviews, agreed to a few exchanges with Swiss filmmaker Georges Gachot. Their evening chats became occasions filled with music and discourse. (Georges Gachot, 2003, 35 mm, English, French, German with subtitles, 63 minutes)
In A Little Symphonic Poem Told by Antonín Dvořák the first movement of the New World Symphony inspires a short story. (1990, digital beta, 12 minutes)