Switzerland Movies

A poetic refection on the exploitation of the water and hardrock mines in the Swiss Alps. Contemporary images and archives, documentary and fictional...

Short film about a city woman visiting the countryside.

At the age of twenty, José and Teresa leave Portugal for Switzerland. The result was a happy home and a modest life as immigrant workers, in the shado...

A girl receives a magic ball from outer space. She plays, the ball ricochets around the four walls of the frame. The ball morphs into a balloon and ca...

In an insect food farm, millions of crickets are being bred, frozen, packaged, and fried. The ordinary, everyday process in the farm is a one-time cat...

Sleeping alone, she tosses and turns. Her solitude is broken. Slipping in and out of consciousness, moving through associative images. She feels suffo...

After being harassed on public transport one evening, a young woman must make her way home on her own.

Makita is a witch, flying around on her broom. Through a game of mirrors, the Witch is reflected on the walls and ground. This multiplication of refle...

Yves Netzhammer creates his world entirely on the computer. In Furniture of Proportions he takes his viewers along for a story that is not easy to des...

Deborah, Audrey, Som and Linn have very different life paths but one thing in common: they are intersex. In Switzerland, where they live, political an...

In between 1984--1985, Distel worked on Die Reise (The Trip),a stunning train and railroad field recording montage. Location recordings were made in...

Five friends are invited to the father's house of one of them. They decide to film their weekend to make a little souvenir. Nothing goes as planned an...

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

The bicycle was still a novelty at the beginning of the 20th century. At the Villa Belle Rive in Cannes, the Lavanchy-Clarke family engage with it cyc...

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

"My windows were shuttered; for two months I had to live in the dark in order to experiment and study the light. When the blackout ended and the light...