Hannes Schüpbach

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Schüpbach studied visual art at the academies of art and design in Zurich (Hochschule für Gestaltung) and in Basel (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst) from 1988 to 1991. In 1992 he dedicated six months to cinema and performance studies at New York University. During his education two figures were very important for their influence on the artist's cinematic language: Werner von Mutzenbecher and André Lehmann. They were his professors and both engaged in experimental film movement in Basel in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Total trailers found: 12

Essais Trailer (2020)

01 October 2020

In Hannes Schüpbach's "Essais" the dancer Kira Blazek explores new movements, tries out passages from one to the other.

L'atelier Trailer (2008)

14 June 2008

Sight and Thought. In the passage of days, inner advancement thus corresponds with a piece of the outer world, the real condition that allows the inner digression and enables the artist to return again to this window, this tree, the house across from here.

Contour Trailer (2011)

04 May 2011

The trilogy Spin/Verso/Contour (2011) emphasizes the corporeal act of vision and of revision. It becomes the pivotal point of a dream-like situation where images reach into the spectators’ remembrance by means of repetition and rhythmical shifts.

Falten Trailer (2005)

06 June 2005

In the form of folds: separate areas of a piece of fabric come together, touching in new ways, at new angles.

Instants Trailer (2013)

07 September 2013

Exquisitely shot on 16mm in the French countryside near Avignon, Hannes Schüpbach's Instants explores the nature of spontaneous time as related to the thinking of French writer Joël-Claude Meffre, transcending portraiture as it not only records the poet working, but also develops a memory of its own.

Winter Feuer Trailer (2000)

13 June 2000

In brief, direct strokes, the film sketches a place in the mountains and illuminates the lingering ties between two friends amid the landscape.

Verso Trailer (2008)

06 June 2008

Verso — turning to things and landscapes, reading them. A movement along things, as if tracing written lines, in order to understand or to grasp, take up, collect them—keeping them around, sustained in memory.

Portrait mariage Trailer (2000)

01 January 2000

Begins and ends with a textile motif. A pattern of ribbons on a damask tablecloth becomes a broad network extending into the depth of the image.

Spin Trailer (2001)

11 May 2001

The concept of Spin, the inherent turning momentum of electrons, stands for the passing of time and for time itself.

Face (d'après Xenakis) Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

Film made from PSAPPHA, a piece for percussion and voice composed in 1976, in which Xenakis works on the relationship between musical rhythms and poetic rhythms.

Erzählung Trailer (2007)

04 March 2007

Out of moments that it articulates little by little, the film develops a complex view of a person: it shows the sculptor Cesare Ferronato at work with volumes of stone and wax, or drawing.

Toccata Trailer (2002)

05 June 2002

“Il tocco” means not only “touch”; it can also mean a small quantity, a single brushstroke in painting, the striking of a bell or of piano keys.