Director's Portrait Fredi M. Murer - Swiss Films

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Script: Fredi M. Murer Camera: Fredi M. Murer “In Passages, Murer makes… a bold attempt to comprehend an idiosyncratic artist from the perspective of his own life experiences and fixed ideas.” Luzerner Neueste Nachrichten, 7 Feb.1973 1972 16mm colour 50’ Passagen P D O C U M E N T A R Y / M U R E R Sound: Benny Lehmann Editing: Yves Yersin, Fredi M. Murer assages, dating from 1972, is Fredi M. Murer’s fourth and, to date, last artist film. It was the first film that Murer shot with Nemo Film AG, the group of writers and producers that he co- founded, and – because a television company is involved – it differs markedly from his earlier artist portraits. Instead of filming the artist and his work in a wildly experimental vein, in Passages Murer delivers an in-depth analysis of Giger’s work, supported by the opinions of various experts. The film focuses on the creative process, the correlations between Giger’s inner worlds and his pictures. “Does the artist have a role to play in society, or is he nothing more than a seismograph tracking the Zeitgeist?” is the question asked in Passages. Yet again, this points to the themes of Murer’s feature films such as Zones and Full Moon: the obligations to the world of the individual in general and of the artist in particular. Cast: H.R. Giger (artist/painter) Production: Nemo Film, WDR, Cologne World Rights: Fredi M. Murer Original Version: German PASSAGES SWISS FILMS
Script: Fredi M. Murer Camera: Fredi M. Murer, Iwan Schumacher “Murer, himself a father to two little girls, has reciprocated with appealing and sensitive portraits of children. In his film Christopher & Alexander… he deliberately chooses not to denounce the wealthy environment in which the two boys grow up; the film is not about class struggle. ‘I don’t want to have to make a statement in every film,’ he says. In a spirit of solidarity with the children, he made the film for them, so that ‘they can look back and see what they used to be like.’” Züri Leu, 15 Feb. 1974 (René Bortolani) 1973 16mm colour 46’ F D O C U M E N T A R Y / M U R E R Sound: Benny Lehmann Music: Jonas C. Haefeli redi M. Murer was right in the middle of preparing to film We mountain people in the mountains… when he got an offer from a Zurich private banker to make a cinematic portrait of his three- and five-year-old sons. Murer accepted the task, mainly because he relished the chance to look behind the hedge of a grand villa. What resulted was a film in two parts. The first part shows the course of an ordinary day in the life of the two boys. The second part deals with the main events on the family calendar, such as birthdays and holidays, which give definition to the year. For a while, Christopher & Alexander, which received mixed reviews, was carefully omitted from Murer’s workography. Today, Murer describes the dual portrait as one of his ethnographic films, and considers We mountain people in the mountains… and Christopher & Alexander to be com- plementary works. Production: Nemo Film AG Zurich, Artco-Film SA Geneva, Eric Franck World Rights: Artco-Film SA Geneva Original Version: French CHRISTOPHER & ALEXANDER SWISS FILMS
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