Funding of the avant-garde film magazine Close-Up<\/em> by Kenneth Macpherson, Hilda Doolittle and Bryher (Territet, 1927-1933)<\/p>\n First Congr\u00e8s International du Cin\u00e9ma Ind\u00e9pendant, La Sarraz<\/p>\n Second Congr\u00e8s International du Cin\u00e9ma Ind\u00e9pendant, Bruxelles<\/p>\n Charles Blanc-Gatti<\/a>: Chromophony.<\/a> 4 Min. Early Example of an ‘Absolute Film’.<\/p>\n “Der Film gestern und heute”, exhibition organised by Georg Schmidt in Basel Kunsthalle (cf Peter B\u00e4chlin, Werner Schmalenbach, Georg Schmidt, Der Film: wirtschaftlich, gesellschaftlich, k\u00fcnstlerisch<\/em>, Basel, Holbein-Verlag, 1947)<\/p>\n “Images du cin\u00e9ma fran\u00e7ais”, Mus\u00e9e cantonal des Beaux-Art\/Palais de Rumine, exhibition organised by Henri Langlois<\/p>\n First Festival of Knokke-le-Zoute<\/a>, founded by Jacques Ledoux, Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que Royale de Bruxelles<\/p>\n Five Swiss films, by Julius Pinschewer, are presented:<\/p>\n Der N\u00e4hkasten<\/em>; Der Sieger<\/em> (w\/ W. Ruttmann); Kipho<\/em> (w\/ Guido Seeber); Das Lammchen<\/em>; Spiel der Wellen<\/em>; King Coal<\/em>.<\/p>\n Under the Brooklyn Bridge<\/strong><\/a> – Rudy Burckhardt (USA 1953)<\/p>\n Festival du\u00a0 Film de Demain<\/strong>, 1954, Basel<\/a><\/p>\n Op\u00e9ration b\u00e9ton<\/em>, Jean-Luc Godard’s first short film<\/p>\n Jonas Mekas founds the experimental film magazine Filmculture<\/em> in New York<\/p>\n The experimental filmmaker\u00a0Ferry Radax<\/a>\u00a0starts making his own films as well as commissioned films in Switzerland.\u00a0Georg Radanowicz<\/a>\u00a0is his assistant.<\/p>\n Second Festival in Knokke-le-Zoute<\/a>, held in Brussels (World Expo)<\/p>\n Swiss films presented: Nice Time<\/em>\u00a0 (Claude Goretta and Alain Tanner);\u00a0 Sur le zinc<\/em> (Fred Schmid)<\/p>\n The Filmartikel<\/i> to institute a law for film is accepted in Switzerland.<\/p>\n In Abstrakt 1 und 2,\u00a0<\/i>1958-1959,\u00a0Guido und Eva Haas<\/a>\u00a0draw directly into 16mm film.<\/p>\n Isognomik59<\/a><\/em> (1959) by Bernhard Luginb\u00fchl and Leonardo Bezzola<\/a> is a cartoon with kinetic figures. The film remains without sound and is accompanied by live music.<\/p>\n In Filmographie<\/em> (1959) Franz Fedier draws directly onto\u00a035mm film. In 1976 \u00a0Fedier ads the soundtrack of a training session of the boxer Fritz Chervet.<\/p>\n Together with German actor G\u00fcnter Gr\u00e4wert, the Swiss painter and producer \u00a0Mauritz E. Houck shoots the experimental movie\u00a0Die Zukunft ist f\u00e4llig<\/span><\/em> (1960\/61) in Munich. (Premier\u00a0in Locarno 1961)<\/p>\n Exhibition\u00a0“Der Film” in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Z\u00fcrich.<\/p>\n First “Filmarbeitswochen \/ Semaines d’\u00e9tudes cin\u00e9mathographiques<\/a>” in Engelberg. (This yearly meeting of filmmakers and filmhistorians, organised by Alex B\u00e4nninger, and later Freddy Landry (1962), took place yearly in autum until 1976)<\/p>\n “New American Cinema” exhibition, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, July 1961.<\/p>\n Foundation of the New York Film-Makers’ Cooperative (by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Lloyd Michael Williams and other filmmakers)<\/p>\n The Swiss Governement decrees its first statue for the funding and the promotion of film in Switzerland (film law).<\/p>\n Third Festival in Knokke-le-Zoute<\/a><\/p>\n Swiss films presented: P\u00eache de nuit<\/a><\/em> (Henri Chopin, Tjerk Wicky, Luc Peire); 27 min. 45 Sek.<\/em> (Gerd Dahlmann), Inclinations<\/a><\/em> (Guido und Eva Haas<\/a>)<\/p>\n the first federal law for film comes to effect in Switzerland (first subsidies for the\u00a0Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que, sponsorships for documentary movies and quality boni for finished movies).<\/p>\n Formation of the\u00a0Platte 27<\/a>, and alternative location for art and culture On\u00a0Plattenstrasse 27 in Z\u00fcrich, founded in the Spring of 1965 (see\u00a0Programm vom September 1968<\/a>) existed in altered form until the mid-1970ies. This was also the location for first screenings of the\u00a0Film Forum.<\/a><\/p>\n Pazifik<\/a> <\/em>(Fredi M. Murer<\/a>)<\/p>\n First Festival in Solothurn\/Soleure<\/a><\/p>\n Foundation of the cine-club and distributor Film Forum<\/a> by Hans Jakob Siber<\/a> (aka Swiss Filmmakers’ Cooperative, activities untill 1968\/69)<\/p>\n Fourth Festival in Knokke-le-Zoute<\/a><\/p>\n Swiss films presented: Thalers’, Meiers’, Sadkowskys Life in the evenening<\/em> (HHK Schoenherr<\/a>); Anamorphosis<\/a> (Guido und Eva Haas); Jalousie (Hans-Jakob Siber<\/a>); Pic-Nic (Georg Radanowicz<\/a>) P.A. Sitney’s touring exhibition on “New American Cinema<\/a>” (September; Lausanne, Zurich, Solothurn)<\/p>\n \u00a0Cine-Circus<\/a>. Yearly events in different cities: Basel, Bern, Luzern. The touring programm Cine-Circus was established as a continuation of the\u00a0Filmforums<\/a>\u00a0in Zurich Z\u00fcrich and took place for the first time in 1967 in Lucerne<\/a>.<\/p>\n Foundation of the film magazine Supervisuell<\/a><\/em> (6 vol., April\/May 1968 – 1970) by HHK Schoenherr and the FilmForum Zurich.<\/p>\n Solothurn Festival<\/a>: January, 21: Programme of Robert Nelson’s films in Solothurn (see programme changes of the festival)<\/p>\n Filmklub Z\u00fcrich<\/a>, February: programme of Robert Nelson’s films (in Person); May: programme of Gregory Markopolous’ films (in Person)<\/p>\n Foundation of the production group and rental\u00a0Cin\u00e9ma Marginal<\/a> (Distribution untill 1973) by Marcel Leiser and Fran\u00e7ois Pasche (later with Frederic Gonseth, Marcel Sch\u00fcpbach) Touring programm\u00a0Cine Circus<\/a>: May in Berne, December in Basel (Nov. 30\/Dec. 1) and Winterthur (Dec. 8).<\/p>\n First “Hamburger Filmschau” (February 1968). Organized by the Hamburg Filmmakers Coop (Helmut Herbst, Werner Nekes, Dore O., Werner Grassmann, Hellmuth Costard, et. al.)<\/p>\n First European Meeting of\u00a0 Independent Filmmakers, Stachus Munich (Nov. 12-17, 1968): organized by the “undependent film center” and\u00a0HHK Schoenherr<\/a>.\u00a0(Second presentation of VALIE EXPORT’S of the\u00a0“Tapp und Tastkino”).<\/p>\n Lydia<\/a><\/em> (Reto Salvodelli<\/a>)<\/p>\n Foundation of the group “Impact ” by Jean Scheurer, Jean-Claude Shauenberg, Pierre Guberanand and Henri Barbier (activities till 1975; with G\u00e9rald Minkoff, Ren\u00e9 Bauermeister, Janos Urban and Jean Otth).<\/p>\n Festival Film-In Luzern<\/a>, 1969-1972<\/p>\n Underground Explosion<\/a>:\u00a015. April 1969 in Circus Krone in Munich; April 18, 1969 in Volkshaus Z\u00fcrich (Platte 27 im Volkshaus), May 3, in Essen; May 6, in Cologne, May 8, in Stuttgart.<\/p>\n Two screenings of experimental films organized in cooperation with the city of Zurich.<\/p>\n Call for the film prize\u00a0Scotoni-Experimentalfilmpreises<\/a>\u00a0offering a yearly fee of 5000,- CHF\u00a0for the course of five years. First (and perhaps last) awardee: HHK. Schoenherr.<\/p>\n Foundation of the International Festival of Documentary Films in Nyon by Moritz and Erika de Hadeln, with a retrospective of Gregory Markopoulos (led to a protest of the audience).<\/p>\n Amendment of the film law: Feature films are now also supported. The passage saying that films are of\u00a0\u201esovereign importance\u201c is discarded.<\/p>\n Foundation of the group Ecart by John Armleder, Patrick Lucchini and Claude Rechner<\/p>\n Ren\u00e9 Berger (director of the\u00a0Mus\u00e9e Cantonal de Lausanne from 1962 till 1982) institutes introductory workshops at the University of Lausanne:\u00a0Esth\u00e9tique et mass m\u00e9dia: La t\u00e9l\u00e9vision.<\/em>\u00a0Amongst others, R\u00e9n\u00e9 Bauermeister, G\u00e9rald Minkoff, Muriel Olesen, Jean Otth and Janos Urban visit these courses.<\/p>\n Festival Film-In<\/a>, Lucern, may 27 to June 7, cycle progressive film, curated by Progressive Art Production<\/p>\n Document and manifesto for the compilation of films shown in the Kunstmuseum and Kleintheater Lucerne<\/a> at the Film-In<\/a> put together by Marcel Boucard<\/p>\n Opening of the Kellerkino Bern, Switzerland’s first \u201ealternative cinema\u201c<\/p>\n Foundation of Film\u2013Pool, a non-for-profit film rental for Swiss movies.<\/p>\n Foundatiom of Nemo Film by\u00a0Alexander J. Seiler, Georg Radanowicz, June Kovach, Fredi Murer, Claude Champion, Yves Yersin, Kurt Gloor and Markus Imhoof.<\/p>\n Final\u00a0Cin\u00e9-Circus<\/a>-Programm in Basel (October), organized by\u00a0AKS and the national film center.<\/p>\n Festival Film-In<\/a>, Lucern, June 4 to 11, \u00a0Swiss Shortfilmprogramm,\u00a0Progressive Films, Switzerland.<\/p>\n Stella da Falla<\/a>, Reto A. Savoldelli<\/a>, 1971, 16mm, color, 90 Min. Sponsored by the Swiss television,\u00a0“Aktion Jungfilmer” screeped on\u00a0DRS, July 17, 1972. Premi\u00e8re: 7. Solothurner Filmtage (January 27, 1972)<\/a><\/p>\n HHK Schoenherr<\/a>‘s touring programm: \u00a0“Movies Kaputt\/Kaputtes Kino<\/a>” presented and financed by Pro Helvetia from May to June 1972. Shown in: Mannheim, K\u00f6ln, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, M\u00fcnchen, London.<\/p>\n Hy\u00e8res Festival du Jeune Cin\u00e9ma,\u00a0a few\u00a0Swiss films were shown\u00a0between 1972 and 1983<\/p>\n ACTION\/FILM\/VIDEO<\/a>, exhibition, May 5 to 18, Galerie Impact, Lausanne with 73 films\u00a0by 50 artists from\u00a010 coutcries\u00a0(Schubiger, 158)<\/p>\n Foundation of the alternative film rental, film-cooperative. The Swiss film center publishes the first\u00a0\u201eSchweizer Filmkatalog\u201c, edited by Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf.<\/p>\n Last awarding of the Scotoni-Prize.<\/a><\/p>\n Exhibition Montreux, New Forms in Film<\/a>, August 03 to 24.<\/p>\n 5. Festival in Knokke-le-Zoute<\/a>,\u00a0Jury member: Harald Szeemann. Swiss contribution:\u00a081 000 Units, Dieter Meier<\/p>\n Hans Jakob Siber<\/a>\u00a0stops making films after the screening of the film\u00a0Die Sage vom alten Hirten Xeudi und seinem Freund Reimann<\/a> in Berlin.<\/p>\n Court-Circuit “Autre aspect du cin\u00e9ma suisse, Maison de Jeunes, Geneva, October<\/p>\n Festival Impact art video art 74 – 8 jours vid\u00e9o<\/em><\/a> (also called Confrontation) (Schubiger, 158)<\/p>\n Foundation of the production-association\u00a0Filmkollektiv.<\/p>\n Foundation of Cin\u00e9libre, as successor of the \u201eVereinigung Schweizer Filmklubs\u201c as union of alternating screening locations in\u00a0Bern, Genf and Z\u00fcrich.<\/p>\n Andy Warhol retrospective, Kunstmuseum Zurich<\/p>\n Pro Helvetia organizes\u00a0Art vid\u00e9o: Recherches et exp\u00e9rience<\/i>s\u00a0in Paris<\/p>\n Cin\u00e9ma en marge<\/i><\/a>, takes place for the first time as part of \u00a0\u201eEspaces\u201c organized by Pro Helvetia in Paris. It was repeated from 1978 to\u00a01981, organized by Ir\u00e8ne Lambelet and\u00a0Otto Ceresa (Pro Helvetia). \u00a0Presentation of 16mm- and Super 8-films\u00a0wits free contributions of\u00a0Swiss and French film authors.<\/p>\n Foundation of the Department of cinema at the ESAV (Geneva school of fine arts) by Fran\u00e7ois Albera and Francis Reusser (workshops with Boris Lehmann, Johan van der Keuken, Stephen Dwoskin, Jean-Marie Straub and Dani\u00e8le Huillet during the end of 1970s and the 1980s)<\/p>\n Vid\u00e9o<\/em>, Exhibition in the Mus\u00e9e d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva.<\/p>\n Filmfront<\/a>, published irregularly between 1978 ano\u00a01988 in Basel. The film-magazine is dedicated to a\u00a0\u201cfight\u00a0for independent film\u201d.<\/p>\n Michael Snow film retrospective, Kunstmuseum Lucern, 1979<\/p>\n Geschichte der Nacht<\/i><\/a>, Clemens Klopfenstein<\/a> 1979, 63 Min.<\/p>\n Conference\u00a0of the Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of\u00a0the historical congress on\u00a0 avantgard film in La Sarraz in 1929. Peter Kubelka\u00a0presents a contemporary experimental film programm.<\/p>\n First Krienser Filmtage (Viper<\/a>)<\/p>\n Foundation of\u00a0 Videoart Locarno by Rinaldo Bianda (activities till 1999)<\/p>\n Exhibition \u00a0“Cine graphia. la linea in movimento. la fotographia di movimento \u2013 il cinema sperimentale \u2013 l\u2019arte video”, August 1 to 10, Gallery Flaviana, Locarno<\/p>\n Start of a video collection at Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich by\u00a0Ursula Perucchi-Petri. (Schubiger, 157)<\/p>\n Ch\u00e9rif and Silvie Defraoui integrate Video in their\u00a0Atelier de M\u00e9dias mixtes<\/em>\u00a0at the Ecole sup\u00e9rieure d\u2019arts visuels ESAV Geneva\u00a0(Schubiger, 159)<\/p>\n Vid\u00e9o & Performance<\/a>, <\/em>exhibition in Bern (Berner Galerie) with 5 pioneers from Western Switzerland as well as Ura\u00a0L\u00fcthi and\u00a0Dieter Meier (Schubiger, 161)<\/p>\n “Filmzyklen \u00fcber das experimentelle Filmschaffen organisiert seit einiger Zeit Franz Reichle im Kunstgewerbemuseum. So unter anderem \u00fcber Jonas Mekas (…) Michael Snow und Marguerite Duras.\u201c Filmfront<\/i> 1981\/15, p. 42<\/p>\n Exhibition: Video-Workshop. Befragungen und M\u00f6glichkeiten eines neuen Mediums<\/i>. St\u00e4dtische Galerie zum Strauhof, Z\u00fcrich (Schubiger, 160)<\/p>\n Exhibition: Schweizer Kunst 70′-80′ Regionalismus\/ Internationalismus<\/em><\/a>, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Martin Kunz with a\u00a0\u00a0selection of video- and performance art<\/p>\n Cinema Xenix (Z\u00fcrich, Patrick Riesen and Cyril Thurston):\u00a0experimental film programm<\/p>\n Ren\u00e9 Pulver and Reinhard Manz from the video society\u00a0Basel found the\u00a0Videowochen im Wenkenpark<\/em> (Director: Pulver, relevated in\u00a01986, 1988)<\/p>\n Quinzaine du Cin\u00e9ma exp\u00e9rimental<\/i>\u00a0from 15\/05\/1985 to 28\/05\/1985 Location: Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que fran\u00e7aise; Centre Georges Pompidou<\/p>\n Sections: Cin\u00e9ma des plasticiens; Le cin\u00e9ma exp\u00e9rimental am\u00e9ricain (1905-1985) dans les collections du MOMA<\/p>\n Filmmakers, Artists: Daniel Spoerri (for Switzerland)\u00a0\u00a0Resurrection<\/i>, 1965-1982, 16mm, bw, 10 min.<\/p>\n From 1985 the Centre pour l\u2019image contemporaine Saint-Gervais Gen\u00e8ve (CIC)\u00a0organizes\u00a0the\u00a0Semaine internationale de la video<\/em> biannually (Schubiger, 157)<\/p>\n First\u00a0video sampler for the United Independent Video Switzerland\u00a0(UVS). Tapes with 17 individual titles of known video artists\u00a0(second edition in 1987, third and last edition in 1994) (Schubiger, 161)<\/p>\n From\u00a01985 the Art Academy in Basel offers a course that puts \u201eartistic and creative audiovisual video work at the center\u201c. Director:\u00a0Ren\u00e9 Pulver. Students (amongst others): Muda Mathis, Pipilotti Rist, K\u00e4the Walser and Renatus Z\u00fcrcher. (Schubiger, 161)<\/p>\n Filmpodium (Bienne, Jacques Dutoit and Beat Porter)<\/p>\n Neues Kino (Basel)<\/p>\n Der Lauf der Dinge<\/em> (Peter Fischli, David Weiss)<\/p>\n Exhibition:\u00a0Stiller Nachmittag,\u00a0<\/i>Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich, video art is shown together with “normal” art (Schubiger, 162)<\/p>\n Last issue of the film magazine Filmfront<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Experimental film programm in the Cinema Spoutnik in\u00a0Usine (Geneva)<\/p>\n Exibition: Les pionniers de la vid\u00e9o en suisse<\/i>, Centre \u00a0pour l\u2019image contemporaine Saint-Gervais Gen\u00e8ve (CIC)<\/p>\n Les D\u00e9bordants<\/em><\/a> (J\u00fcrg Hassler<\/a>)<\/p>\n 1927 Funding of the avant-garde film magazine Close-Up by Kenneth Macpherson, Hilda Doolittle and Bryher (Territet, 1927-1933) 1929 First Congr\u00e8s International du Cin\u00e9ma Ind\u00e9pendant, La Sarraz 1930 Second Congr\u00e8s International du Cin\u00e9ma Ind\u00e9pendant, Bruxelles 1939 Charles Blanc-Gatti: Chromophony. 4 Min. Early Example of an ‘Absolute Film’. 1943 “Der Film gestern und heute”, exhibition organised by Georg Schmidt in Basel Kunsthalle (cf Peter B\u00e4chlin, Werner Schmalenbach, Georg Schmidt, Der Film: wirtschaftlich, gesellschaftlich, k\u00fcnstlerisch, Basel, Holbein-Verlag, 1947) 1945 “Images du cin\u00e9ma fran\u00e7ais”, Mus\u00e9e cantonal des Beaux-Art\/Palais de Rumine, exhibition organised by Henri…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":366,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/sfex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/sfex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/sfex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/sfex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/sfex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":117,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/sfex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10960,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/sfex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/10960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/sfex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nOff competition: Das Gesicht der alten Frau, die Suppenterrine, Vreni Keller spricht und des Popo der Madame <\/em>(HHK Schoenherr); Wir sterben vor<\/a><\/em> (AKS); .<\/p>\n
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\nOther founding members were\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Pasche, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Gonseth and Marcel Sch\u00fcpbach. Their first film catalogue was published in\u00a01968, depending on source, the first public screeningstook place either on May 1 (Travelling) or on April 22 (programm Filmforum) in Zurich.<\/p>\n
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