Fredi M. Murer
Biography
Born in 1940 in Beckenried. Studied photography at the Schule für Gestaltung, Zurich. Contributed to the EXPO 64. 1970 Visiting professor at the Gilford Arts School, London. 1975-76 Studied in the USA. Since 1967 independent filmmaker and producer in Zurich. 1992-96 President of the Swiss Filmmakers’ Association. 2007 Awarded Swiss Film Prize, Best Fiction Film for “Vitus”.
Filmography
- 1962 Marcel (short film)
- 1965 Pazifik oder die Zufriedenen (fiction)
- 1966 Chicorée (experimental film)
- 1966 Bernhard Luginbühl (documentary)
- 1968 Vision of a Blind Man (experimental film)
- 1969 2069 (short film, part of the compilation film Swiss Made)
- 1969 Sad-is-faction (documentary)
- 1972 Passagen (documentary)
- 1973 Christopher und Alexander (documentary)
- 1974 Wir Bergler in den Bergen sind eigentlich nicht schuld, dass wir da sind (documentary)
- 1979 Grauzone (fiction)
- 1985 Höhenfeuer (fiction)
- 1987 Sehen mit anderen Augen (documentary)
- 1990 Der grüne Berg (documentary)
- 1991 Die verborgene Fiktion im Dokumentarfilm (short film, part of the compilation “le film du cinéma suisse”)
- 1998 Vollmond (fiction)
- 2004 Downtown Switzerland (co-director, documentary)
- 2006 Vitus (fiction)