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Anka Schmid

*1961, Zurich, Switzerland. Filmmaker: Documentaries, Dramatic Films, Videoart. Numerous Film Awards. 1988 one-year-stay in Hopiland in order to film and edit TECHQUA IKACHI.

Mit dem Bauch durch die Wand Anka Schmid
A long-term documentation of three teenage mothers who asserted their anarchistic wish to have children, contrary to today’s Zeitgeist.
Mit dem Bauch durch die Wand
Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch - Das grosse Spiel Film Anka Schmid
A fascinating portrait of the Swiss film pioneer Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch, who has left us with a multifaceted and timeless film and video oeuvre. A documentary by Anka Schmid and seven short films by Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch.
Das Engadiner Wunder Tania Stöcklin, Anka Schmid VOD
In two parallel films two dead people, a man and a woman, recount the last days of their lives. It is far from clear however just how these recordings came to be made on the video cassettes of an amateur botanist.
Little Sister Anka Schmid VOD
The young postwoman Lisa delivers every day messages of joy and frustration to the people of Zurich, but she is to shy to participate on life herself.
Little Sister
Labyrinth-Projektionen Agnes Barmettler, Anka Schmid
The artvideo follows the complex structure of the labyrinth, which combines familiar basic signs as horizontal, vertikal, triangle, square and circle.
Labyrinth-Projektionen
Magic Matterhorn Anka Schmid
MAGIC MATTERHORN is a playful search for today’s sentiments of home. The film takes us through real and imaginary worlds, confronts specific conditions of life with clichés and takes a delight in kitsch.
Magic Matterhorn
Techqua Ikachi James Danaqyumptewa, Agnes Barmettler, Anka Schmid
Hopi elders in the village of Hotevilla (Arizona) relate the story of their people’s history. As witnesses themselves, they tell about their peaceful resistance against the American government’s expropriating their land and depriving them of their rights.
Habibi - Ein Liebesbrief Anka Schmid VOD
A surrealistic film about love. She lives in a bih zown, maybe Berlin. He lives in another town, maybe Zurich. They are related by phone and missing each other.
Herzens-Freude Anka Schmid VOD
Young men and woman have a red heart. Sometimes it is small, sometimes it is big, sometimes it is flying away.
Die Reise zur Südsee Anka Schmid VOD
A man and a woman in a laundry. While the machines are working, they smile at each other. Soon their faces are fading and they go into a journey.
Die Reise zur Südsee
Heidi Bucher
The filmic biography of the swiss avant-garde artist Heidi Bucher (1926-1993).

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