Swiss filmmaker coming to the Harvard Film Archive, April 13
An Evening with Hannes Schüpbach, 4 short films.
The films of Hannes Schüpbach (b. 1965) extend the tradition of the meditative and lyrical film diary alternately defined by the work of Gregory Markopoulos, Robert Beavers and Nathaniel Dorsky, filmmakers united by an interest in the power and limits of the single shot and an idea(l) of beauty grounded in a fascination with nature. An accomplished painter and expert on textile art, Schüpbach uses 16mm cinematography to explore cinema’s painterly dimensions, bringing to his films a keen attention to color and light and their effect on mood and tempo. Schüpbach’s meticulously structured silent films, like those of Dorsky, discover a multi-layered world, often using superimpositions and reflections to explore the hidden depths of the places and people evoked within them. We are pleased to welcome Hannes Schüpbach for a program of recent and early work that includes his lovely debut film Portrait Marriage (2000) as well as paired portraits of his mother and father—Spin (2001) and Verso (2008), respectively—and L’atelier (2008), a meditation on light and gesture within a gorgeously appointed artist’s studio in Paris.
All films directed by Hannes Schüpbach.
Hannes Schüpbach in Person
Special Event Tickets $10
Monday April 13 at at 7pm
Portrait Marriage
Switzerland 2000, 16mm, color, silent, 9 min.
Spin
Switzerland 2001, 16mm, color, silent, 12 min.
Verso
Switzerland 2008, 16mm, color, silent, 15 min.
L’atelier
Switzerland 2008, 16mm, color, silent, 16 min.
The Harvard Film Archive is located in the Carpenter Center for the Arts
24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
617-495-4700
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
Tickets for this special event are $10. The HFA does not sell advance tickets. Tickets will go on sale at the HFA box office 45 minutes prior to showtime.
