Farewell Paradise
Sonja Wyss’ first feature length documentary is an autobiographical film exploring the ambiguity and emotions of a Swiss family (Roberto Oggiano, January 29, 2020).
FILM/VIDEO
While She Waits
Online from todays Mother’s Day onward !
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms in the world. Mothers, grandmothers, mothers-in-law, new moms in the making, mother’s who’ve lost and mother’s that have passed.
Our dance film WHILE SHE WAITS shows the emotional transformation during the last months of her pregnancy in a poetic and melancholic way. Click the image above to get to the page & link. Enjoy!
SHE/HER
SHE/HER is a dance film about the balance of power and the deep underlying emotions of a mother-daughter relationship: the uncertainties, manipulation, dependence and ultimately love.
What time is it
Two people, a man and a woman, are having a last drink. A little incident changes their relationship profoundly. They have a different experience of the same event. Two perspectives, two different stories – just like in real life.
GREIFENSEE
What begins and ends like a plain and simple holiday trip on a Swiss mountain lake, beneath the surface, a straightforward drama between a mother and her daughter.
WINTERSILENCE
In a snowed-in log cabin, a widow lives with her four grown-up daughters, all with their own desires for love and intimacy. The strong Catholic faith and their mourning that has tormented them for years has condemned them to a life of chastity. Mysterious deer-men change their existence…
Crinoline
Crinoline (Crinoline) shows a ballet-like performance of a man in a hoop, a crinoline. We hear a voice of a man whispers, as if no one can hear his suffering love…
I WANT TO GET OUT
The artist’s video ‘Ich will raus’ (I want to get out) addresses the wish to escape the dreariness of everyday life. The soundtrack of the video is based on the 80s pop song “Sehnsucht” by Purple Schulz…
THE CROW
Die Krähe (The Crow) is a composition of pictures and scenes inspired by Franz Schubert’s song with the same title. The original music is alienated and the irritable pictures are slowed down, so that scenes and sound turn into a smooth, soothing composition…
CAMILLA
video installation with one projection of a young dancing woman and one inflatable object. Through headphones the spectator can hear a elderly woman holding a monologue about unfulfilled wishes and desires..
REX
The installation consists of 5 video’s and 1 object. The video’s are taken at the dogpoliceguards and shows short fragments of the training of the dogs as policesdogs. The full attention goes towards the dogs, which are portraitet as neurotic, stressed animals, educated to serve as a weapon, the agents are not in the picture.…
WEDDING BELLS
The dreamlike setting of “Hoch-Zyte” shows three women and their multilayered fantasies and dreams about marriage and their wedding day. An 11-year old girl is knitting a “wedding stocking” (Hochzeitssparstrumpf) used to collect money for her dowry…
Purity
The video/installation “Purity” reflects the desire to internalise beauty by the eating of flowers and the impossibility of this…
HELLO MISS STIRNIMAA
…Miss Stirnimaa is a farm-girl, who early in the morning gathers a bunch of flowers, to deliver them to someone, who she feels is of great importance but still unknown to her. So she is marching, rigid and resolute, over the countryland towards the big, unknown city, to find this person. Slowly she gets lost,…
PIPI
Pippi Longstocking has grown up. She’s young and in contradiction to her childhooddays a passive and bored teenager, but not depressed though. She feels cool and has her life under control. As always there is chaos in the house and she is bathing in it. She smokes drinks and misbehaves. She is unfeminine and likes…
TO DATE
A face appears on the screen. White, new, fresh, it contemplates itself like in a mirror. The hands touch the face, start to prepare it like one prepares a terrain to welcome something strange. Foundation, powder, make-up … not forgetting the hair, the essential feminine ornament. The more make-up covers the face, the more agitated…
GET OFF MY BACK
A person is busy to skin teddybears, one after another. In de background, there is a whole bunch of already skinned teddybears, thus its not one, but a huge amount of them, and it reminds more of a slaughter-house, than of a living room. The skinning happens in a mechanic, everydays manner, as if it…