Jakob Tuggener Trailers
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Following an apprenticeship as a technical draughtsman, Jakob Tuggener (1904–88) studied typography, graphic design and film at the Reimann School in Berlin. Returning to Switzerland in 1931, he worked as a freelance photographer for industrial firms and illustrated magazines, allowing him to pursue his personal photography; in 1936 he also began making films. In the 1950s his work was introduced to an international audience thanks to Otto Steiner and Edward Steichen. Tuggener’s uncompromising subjective style, influenced by 1920s German Expressionist film, inspired many young Swiss photographers including Robert Frank and Hans Danuser.
Most Popular Jakob Tuggener Trailers
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02 January 1946
Documentary on the former country railway lines in the Zurich Oberland region. Coal and water are refilled before the steam engine can take off.
02 January 1971
The film is made up of recordings taken from Tuggener's entire period of creative activity, and brings together places and factories to which the artist produced individual films, books and corporate publications.
02 January 1942
A girl sees a bathing costume in a shop window, and as she has no money takes a kitsch painting off the wall at home in order to sell it.
02 January 1958
As the painter looks on, the visitors to an exhibition turn into surreal creatures borne of his own fantasy.
02 January 1944
The waves have washed up a skull from the sea. A rambler tries to connect the find to a nearby mill. The film as a whole is association and mood.
02 January 1967
As the newly arrived souls realize just how austere heaven is, they want to leave. Tuggener uses various locations in the city of Zurich in order to tell his story of heaven, ancient gods and worldly delights.
02 January 1938
Impressions of the small village of Grimentz in the Val d'Anniviers in the canton of Wallis. The eye follows the Gougra brook past alpine farms and the village, past humans and animals, work, landscape and local architecture.
02 January 1954
While a little girl listens to her mother's tales, a fantasy vision of heaven arises in her mind's eye as the first image.
01 May 1943
The notion of socio-political outcry arises out of multiple superimpositions of Labour Day demonstrations, banners and speeches.
02 January 1962
Mortimer is the revenge of a man exacted on a woman who did not want to sacrifice anything for him. The feelings in his heart are made visible in expressionistic production design.
02 January 1937
Tuggener had already photographed the airshow in Dübendorf in 1934, and in 1937 made his first film at the event.
02 January 1952
A hermit looks at a large book in the forest and repeatedly immerses himself in the visual world of Hieronymus Bosch.
02 January 1943
A steamboat ride on Lake Zurich. Filmed close up to the machines, the operators and the passengers, the short film provides a multifaceted impression of the work in the engine room and the lively activities on deck.
02 January 1960
An evening in the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz between dancing couples, the bustle of the kitchen and at the festive table, accompanied by the sensual musical stylings of a jazz band.
