Fred Frith

The Anchor (2024)

A psychotherapist (Charlotte Rampling) listens to archive testimonies from her former patients. Their words mingle with images of a journey across the Arctic aboard a sailboat. Among these stories, the therapist recounts her own path through psychosis. ...

Greina (2024)

In the 1970s, the GREINA, which connects Graubünden with Ticino, became famous throughout Switzerland. The architect and artist Bryan Cyril Thurston campaigned for 20 years with his art against a reservoir on this magnificent plateau. At the time, his say ...

I'll be your mirror (2021)

The artist Johanna Faust is about to leave her children to finally devote herself to her art again. A vague memory comes to her mind: Didn't her grandmother do the same thing, with terrible consequences? The intimate road movie tells of lost mothers and ab ...

Rhythm in the Backstroke (2019)

Light - Movement - Time - Memory - Joy ...

Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy (2018)

Thomas Riedelsheimer's landmark Rivers and Tides inventively documented artist Andy Goldsworthy as he created his wondrously ephemeral site-specific sculptures, spun from nature. Fifteen years later, Goldsworthy is still appealingly engaged in his philosop ...

Zen for Nothing (2016)

Hidden in the wooded mountains on the west coast of Japan lies the small Zen monastery Antaiji. A young woman sets off to immerse herself through autumn, winter and spring in the adventures of monastic life. The young woman is Sabine Timoteo from Switzerla ...

Last Day of Freedom (2015)

When Bill Babbitt realizes his brother Manny has committed a crime he agonizes over his decision to call the police. ...

Fritz Hauser: Sound Explorer (2011)

A documentary about experimental drummer Fritz Hauser. ...

Rage (2009)

A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the internet. Result: a bitterly funny expose of an industry in crisis, during a week in which an accident on the ...

The Time that Rests (2007)

The time that Rests is a contemplative look at the daily life of the José Horwitz Barak Hospital, one of the oldest psychiatric facilities in Chile, located in the north of Santiago. It is not a film about madness, but about the passing of time in a certa ...

Drei gegen Troja (2005)

Touch the Sound (2004)

A documentary which explores the connections among sound, rhythm, time, and the body by following percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who is nearly deaf. ...

Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002)

Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and wilde ...

Fragments d'ici (2002)

Johann le Guillerm, the tightrope walker who had become one of the main characters in Middle of the Moment, decided to found a new circus and called it "Cirque Ici." In the fall of 1997, we visited him on the first European tour of his solo circus performa ...

Rivers and Tides (2001)

Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature. ...

The Tango Lesson (1997)

On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but this time their relati ...

Middle of the Moment (1995)

Filmmakers Nicolaus Humbert and Werner Penzel examine the nature of nomadic existence in this documentary, from the literal nomads of North Africa to the more metaphorical kind of wanderer, such as American poet and ex-pat Robert Lax. Humbert and Penzel fo ...

Before Sunrise (1995)

An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may ...

Little Lieutenant (1994)

Little Lieutenant is a look back at the late Weimar era with its struggles and celebrations leading up to world war, a period piece. Scored to John Zorn's arrangement of the Kurt Weill song, "Little Lieutenant of the Loving God", and drawing its imagery bo ...

Orlando (1992)

England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request. ...

Thea und Nat (1992)

Thea is attractive, and her husband Nat is wealthy. Together, they are a classic couple who have grown apart. A "clean" breakup is imminent. But then Thea causes an accident that leaves Nat paralyzed. Plagued by guilt, she moves back into their shared apar ...

Eastern Cross (1991)

15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man's-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germa ...

Step Across the Border (1990)

An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith. ...

The Top of His Head (1989)

Satellite dish salesman Gus experiences some life-altering changes when he meets performance artist Lucy in this visually poetic fantasy. After Lucy vanishes, leaving a puzzling note, Gus goes on a quest for the mysterious woman. Moving from his meticulous ...

Wolfsgrub - Portrait of My Mother (1986)

In this film, Humbert is on the trail of his own history. Wolfsgrub is the name of the house where Humbert's mother lives, and though she is getting on in years, she becomes young again as she answers her son's questions. Humbert allows his mother the spac ...

Attwenger Adventure (2007)

Touch the Sound (2004)

A documentary which explores the connections among sound, rhythm, time, and the body by following percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who is nearly deaf. ...

A Bookshelf on Top of the Sky: 12 Stories About John Zorn (2002)

A rare peek into the working methods of John Zorn. Filmed over a ten year period, this documentary includes live footage of Masada, Naked City, Cobra, as well as improvisations, his classical work and rare interviews. A prize winner at European festivals, ...

Step Across the Border (1990)

An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith. ...