A Spotlight on the Works of Reni Mertens and Walter Marti

Bildrausch 2019

Bildrausch will celebrate its 9th edition from June 19th to June 23rd 2019. Save the date!

Resonance: Embracing the Future with Reni Mertens and Walter Marti

They were radical, committed, and believed in the humanistic power of cinema. They combined an uncompromising political attitude with the highest aesthetic standards and created a documentary oeuvre that has lost none of its power and beauty. 20 years after their deaths, Bildrausch is honouring the Swiss avantgarde filmmakers Reni Mertens and Walter Marti with a tribute programme. | more

Reni Mertens und Walter Marti

From 20 to 23 June, the special programme Resoncne: Embracing the Future with Reni Mertens and Walter Marti is dedicated to the most important milestones of the auteur couple, who influenced an entire generation of Swiss filmmaker as directors, producers and mentors.

The first Honorary Award for Visionary Cinema goes to Paul Schrader

For over forty years, Paul Schrader has defined the great art of subverting Hollywood from the inside – emotionally, intellectually and spiritually. At his closing ceremony, Bildrausch paid homage to the grand auteur with the newly introduced Honorary Award for Visionary Cinema. The Award was presented by the German filmmaker Dominik Graf.

A Bildrausch Ring of Film Art for Ang Panahon ng Halimaw (Season of the Devil), by Lav Diaz

In 1976, Ferdinand Marcos issued a presidential decree that led to the creation of a paramilitary group. This terrorist militia subsequently murdered nurses like Lorena, but also poets like Hugo. Shot in black and white, Season of the Devil is an additional contribution about the history and present of Lav Diaz’ homeland and alternates between opera, musical and musical theatre. | more

A Bildrausch Ring of Film Art for Zama, by Lucrecia Martel

The end of the 18th century, Asunción in Paraguay, an outpost of civilisation in the midst of wilderness: Don Diego de Zama, a lowly official in the Spanish colonial administration, wants to get away. By focusing on the power structures of a social microcosm, Lucrecia Martel creates a kind of anti-costume drama, in which the forced boredom of the tragic hero finds its equivalent in the Kafkaesque machinations of the ruling class. Zama opens in Swiss theatres on June 7, 2018. | more

A honorable mention for Hale County This Morning, This Evening, by RaMell Ross

Hale County is located in Alabama, in the so-called Black Belt, and thus in the midst of the historic South with all its unfortunate memories. Here, the photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross has among other things worked as a teacher and basketball coach. During his tenure, he met his protagonists – Quincy, a young family father and Daniel, who dreams of a sports scholarship – long before he decided to capture the reality of these two men and the black community of Hale County with his camera. Ross – who in the good old independent tradition was responsible for the directing, production, screenplay, cinematography, sound-recording and editing of his film – worked on his experimental documentary for five years. | more