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    Filmexperimente

      Swiss Film Experiments 1950โ€“1988

      Substructures like experimental or animation film are conspicuously absent from Swiss film historiography. โ€œSwiss Film Experiments 1950-1988โ€ (SFE) undertakes comprehensive research into the highly disparate source materials and interprets these through close analysis in order to provide the first history of Swiss experimental film and to reveal its close relations with the international scene. In addition to written sources, the project draws on the oral testimonies of contemporary witnesses. The project thus lays the foundation for a hitherto missing overall perspective on the history of Swiss experimental film.

      Experimental filmmaking has always situated itself either close to or explicitly separate from the visual arts. โ€œSwiss Film Experiments 1950โ€“1988โ€ therefore places the data gathered not only within film studies, but also within art history. Such a critical account of the history of these marginalized forms of cinema thus aims to provide a more accurate understanding of Swiss film and art history, and to facilitate their selective reappraisal.

      Research findings will become available through book publications, an exhibition, various lectures and talks, and a DVD. The project team envisages an anthology of Swiss experimental film for the period under investigation; a collection of materials that makes available currently scattered and only partly written sources; an in-depth doctoral dissertation on one aspect of the prospective history; an exhibition featuring films and other artistic work by the participating film artists; and a DVD containing a representative selection of films. A video library at the participating research institutes will provide a comprehensive overviews.  

      Project leaders

      Dr. Fred Truniger, ZHdK, Institute for the Performing Arts and Film (ipf)

      Dr. Franรงois Bovier, Universitรฉ de Lausanne, Section cinรฉma Associates Thomas Schรคrer, ZHdKAdeena Mey (doctoral candidate at the Universitรฉ de Lausanne)

      Project partners

      Universitรฉ de Lausanne, Sรฉction dโ€˜histoire et esthรฉtique du cinรฉma, Prof. Maria TortajadaHochschule Luzern, Design & Kunst, Prof. Gabriela Christen

      Research partners

      Cinรฉmathรจque Suisse, Lausanne, Lichtspiel Kinemathek, Bern, Migros Museum for Contemporary Art, ZurichMemoriav, Association for the Preservation of the Audiovisual Heritage of SwitzerlandMuseum of Fine Arts Bern, Dr. Kathleen BรผhlerReservoirfilm.ch, Zรผrich

      Research network

      Catherine Quรฉloz, Haut Ecole dโ€˜Art et du Design (HEAD), Geneva

      Christophe Bichon, Light Cone, Paris

      Funding

      Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) / DORE

      DurationAugust 2010 โ€“ July 2013