Three Swiss films competing at the Short-Film Festival Oberhausen
18.03.2010
Germany’s oldest and highly renowned short-film festival, which will be held for the 56th time from 29 April to 4 May 2010 in Oberhausen, will feature three Swiss short films competing against each other. The 14-minute documentary film “Fuori dal gregge” by Matteo Gariglio (producer Lucerne University HSLU – Video Department) is a contender in the international competition for the Grand Prix endowed with 7,500 euro. The films “Mungge – Nid scho widr!” by the student collective of Claudia Röthlin, Irmgard Walthert and Adrian Flückiger (HSLU cartoon film) as well as “Grosse Pläne”, the last cartoon by Irmgard Walthert, are being shown in the children’s and youth film competition.
The film “Fuori dal gregge”, which follows an old farmer into the mountains of Piedmont, will be celebrating its international premiere in Oberhausen, following its Swiss premiere at the Winterthur Short-Film Festival last November.
A children’s and youth jury will judge the 33rd children’s and youth film competition featuring the two Swiss cartoons and will award prizes valued at 2,000 euro. Prize money totalling 40,000 euro is on offer at the Oberhausen Short-Film Festival. All Swiss film makers are participating in the festival with the support of the promotional agency SWISS FILMS.
The Swiss presence in Oberhausen will be supplemented by a performance at the “Markt". The distribution platform Videoart.ch from Zofingen which specialises in experimental works and video art, is one of 13 international distributors that have been invited to present a selection from their catalogue at a screening. Together with Eric de Kuyper, the Zurich film historian Mariann Lewinsky has compiled a large retrospective with experimental short films from the founder years of cinema under the title “Vom Meeresgrund: Das Experiment Film 1898-1918”. The festival also presents the long documentary film “Grundeinkommen” by Daniel Häni and Enno Schmidt and organises a public discussion on the subject involving the Swiss Stefan M. Seydel (rebell.tv).
Geneva/Zurich, 18 March 2010
A children’s and youth jury will judge the 33rd children’s and youth film competition featuring the two Swiss cartoons and will award prizes valued at 2,000 euro. Prize money totalling 40,000 euro is on offer at the Oberhausen Short-Film Festival. All Swiss film makers are participating in the festival with the support of the promotional agency SWISS FILMS.
The Swiss presence in Oberhausen will be supplemented by a performance at the “Markt". The distribution platform Videoart.ch from Zofingen which specialises in experimental works and video art, is one of 13 international distributors that have been invited to present a selection from their catalogue at a screening. Together with Eric de Kuyper, the Zurich film historian Mariann Lewinsky has compiled a large retrospective with experimental short films from the founder years of cinema under the title “Vom Meeresgrund: Das Experiment Film 1898-1918”. The festival also presents the long documentary film “Grundeinkommen” by Daniel Häni and Enno Schmidt and organises a public discussion on the subject involving the Swiss Stefan M. Seydel (rebell.tv).
Geneva/Zurich, 18 March 2010