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Kinga Osz-Kemp

Actor

Films

The End of Time

The End of Time

By Peter Mettler

2012 | 109 min | Documentary

Filming the unfilmable: From the particle accelerator in Switzerland, where scientists seek to probe regions of time we cannot see, to lava flows in Hawaii. Working at the limits of what can easily be expressed, filmmaker Peter Mettler takes on the elusive subject of time, and once again turns his camera to filming the unfilmable. From the particle accelerator in Switzerland, where scientists seek to probe regions of time we cannot see, to lava flows in Hawaii which have overwhelmed all but one ...

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Are we living in a kind of cultural schizophrenia, where people publicly profess the theory of evolution but privately prefer to believe in angels, shamans, gods and spirits? Can the images and values of spiritual traditions be communicated with the astonishing results of modern research or do they remain pure matters of faith? Scientific research continues to yield new insights into our environment, such as the detection of Higgs bosons or gravitational waves. At the same time, interest in esotericism, ...

Focus on Infinity

Focus on Infinity

2014 | 80 min | Documentary

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This Movie is a Gift

2019 | 72 min | Documentary

Daniel Spoerri makes artworks from found objects which lose their original function as soon as he integrates them into his work. Meeting the artist in his studio, a museum of discarded things, becomes an opportunity to tie his imagery back to these objects and to his biography. Spoerri, born Feinstein, is the son of a Romanian Jew who was deported and murdered. For the later founder of nouveau réalisme, Switzerland meant a new start. But the memories of a traumatic past carve their own trails: ...

The Circle in Which She Travels

The Circle in Which She Travels

2010 | 25 min | Drama

19-year-old Luisa travels to Mexico to search for her Mexican roots, which her mother kept secret from her. She wants to find her grandfather, whom she has never met. All she knows is that he lived in a small mountain town in Mexico and that the name is “Villa”. What she doesn't know is that the famous Mexican revolutionary from 1910 has the same name and that every Mexican knows the name of the national hero. During her search, she meets a young man named Memo, who offers to help her. Torn between ...

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Overgames

2015 | 164 min | Documentary

A harmless game show or a deep-rooted experiment in re-education? When the game show “Nur nicht nervös werden” (“Don't get nervous”) first aired on West German television in 1960, no one suspected that the seemingly innocent competitions could be based on ideas from American psychiatry. But that is precisely what Joachim Fuchsberger, the host of the show at the time, claimed years later in an ARD talk show. When asked about the origins of the game mechanics, he provocatively retorted: “A crazy, mentally ...

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Peter Kees, Ambassador of Arcadia, occupies one square meter of land in different countries and declares this occupied land as an Arcadian territory. What lies behind this peaceful land grabbing? United by a desire for freedom and autonomy, action artist, film director and ambassador Peter Kees joins with activists, artists and philosophers to explore the ancient myth of Arcadia.