| Day and Després | Després and Schmid | Goël | Zaqueando |
Production les films du renard 2005 - 2006
| Després et Schmid : | self made portrait 2006 |
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An intimate portrait of film maker Stephen Dwoskin, who is working
on his latest film Oblivion. He talks about his way of working in film
and about his personal life story. The film also includes key
fragments from his earlier oeuvre.
Self Made Portrait is both a professional and a personal portrait
of Stephen Dwoskin, made when he was working on his latest film,
Oblivion, in 2005. Dwoskin talks at length about his way of working,
about the way he uses music, the subjects and styles that engross
and engrossed him as a film maker, and about his early years as
a graphic designer. The film, with sparing fragments from Oblivion
and earlier films by Dwoskin (including Intoxicated By My Illness
and Dad), can certainly be described as an intimate portrait.
The camera feels its way over the film maker, and in doing so differs
little from what Dwoskin himself does in his cinematographic
experiments. The relationship between subject and object, between
the film maker and his subject, has a significant place in this.
A relationship in which intimacy, sensuality, time and - related to
this - transience, play a significant role. Making film, as Cocteau
once remarked, also always means filming death, because a unique
and therefore mortal moment is recorded. Documentary makers
Claudine Després, Julian Schmid and Cathy Day are involved in
producing three DVD anthologies covering the whole of Stephen
Dwoskin's oeuvre; a labour-intensive project, if only because of
the parlous state of some of the available prints. The first part,
fourteen films on five DVDs, will be presented during this
year's festival. (Erwin Houtenbrink, IFFR).
Collaborateurs:
Idée et réalisation : Claudine Després et Julian Schmid
Réalisatrice associée et interlocutrice de S. Dwoskin: Cathy Day
Images: Stephen Dwoskin, Claudine Després, Cathy Day
Sons : Julien Schmid
Mixage: Luc Yersin
Montage : Després & Schmid
Etalonnage: Hervé Vander Heyden, Studio-L'Equipe, Bruxelles
Graphisme: Eva Rittmeyer, Xavier Robel
Festival international du film de Rotterdam (IFFR)
Claudine Després
Born in Geneva, Switzerland
Lives and works in Geneva
Recent films :
807 images, video, documentary, 40’, 1996
Pierre, video, documentary, 15’, 1999
Conventions de Genève : 50 bannières, video, documentary, 30’, 2000
Approche, video, documentary, 15’, 2002
18 ans pour Léonor, video, documentary, 40’, 2004
Conversation piece with Stephen Dwoskin, video, documentary, 32’, 2005
Self made portrait, video, documentary, 82', 2006
Julian Schmid
Born in Geneva, Switzerland
Lives and works in Geneva
Recent films :
Réel, 16mm, documentary-fiction, 12', 1993
L’oie naine(pour), 16mm, fiction 18'., 1994
Fouille 1, 16 mm, documentary,17', 1995,
Fine Primo Tempo, 16mm, fiction, 40', 1997
Mineurs, 16mm, documentary, 42', 1997
Self made portrait, video, documentary, 82', 2006
Festival 2005 and 2006
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), 2006
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