MY LIFE AS A FILM - HOW MY FATHER TRIED TO CAPTURE HAPPINESS
by Eva Vitija
synopsis
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life. It infuriated me, because I had unavailingly attempted to get away from his camera. My father, filmmaker Joschy Scheidegger, documented our family obsessively. It was only when he died that I was impelled to take over not only his extensive film archive, but also his camera. The result is a personal search for traces of surprising truths hidden behind my father’s pictures. A philosophical family story about filming and the attempt to share life.
international title: | My Life As A Film - How My Father Tried To Capture Happiness |
original title: | Das Leben drehen - Wien mein Vater versuchte, das Glück festzuhalten |
country: | Switzerland |
sales agent: | SwissDok GmbH |
year: | 2015 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Eva Vitija |
film run: | 77' |
screenplay: | Eva Vitija |
cinematography by: | Stefan Dux |
film editing: | Natascha Cartolaro, Fabian Kaiser |
music: | Christian Garcia |
producer: | Daniel Howald, Chantal Millès |
production: | SwissDok GmbH, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK, SRF - Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen |
distributor: | Filmcoopi |