Escher, der Engel und die Fibonacci Zahlen

Der Zürcher Hauptbahnhof

Samir

Two pieces of art build the base of this portrait about Zurich’s main station. Not only is the more than 160 years old train station a European intersection, it is also a shopping centre and a cultural event hall. What is it that makes this main station to one of the most interesting train station of Europe?

Every traveller who comes to Zurich’s main station, will first discover, high up at the ceiling of the huge arrival hall, a piece of art made by Niki de Saint-Phalle: the more than 10 meter big sculpture «L’Ange protecteur». The artist Niki the Saint-Phalle built the angel in 1997 for the main station hall. Since the main station has once more been rebuild in the mid 90is, the vast hall as been given to the travellers disposal.

Those travellers who admired the floating angel, often don’t notice the artwork behind them: «The philosophical egg» by Mario Merz. It is fixed to the bright glass panel of the western side. Which finishes the arrival hall and stands crossways to the old train station hall of the 19th century.

The Italian Arte-Povera-Artist Mario Merz built this installation in 1992, based on his occupation with the Fibonacci-numbers. The red neon spirals, the blue numbers and the animals are best admired by twilight.

Both pieces of art build the foundation for the realisation of this movie about Zurich’s main station.

Samir

Samir, born 1955 in Bagdad, grew up in Switzerland. In 1982 he first he worked as freelance author and director. Today Samir is well known for his unique work encompassing video and electronic cinema: he has worked on over 40 films, such as «Morlove - an Ode for Heisenberg» (1986) and the docu-essay «Babylon 2» (1993).

In 1994 he co-founded Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion with filmmaker Werner Schweizer. Located in Zurich, the aim of this production company was to encourage new, young swiss film-makers and talents.

In the Nineties, besides concentrating on his own projects as an independent producer and director, Samir worked for German broadcasters, directing several features and series for private channels such as SAT1, RTL and Pro7, as well as for public television channels such as WDR, ZDF, the French-German ARTE amongst others.

His films received national and international awards and also won him recognition for the innovative aspects of his work. Samir teaches at the Kunsthochschule für Medien (KHM) in Cologne and at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie (dffb) in Berlin.

Some of his work is also presented in an art context.

2012 IRAQI ODYSSEY
2009 ESCHER, DER ENGEL UND DIE FIBONACCI-ZAHLEN
2005 SNOW WHITE
2002 FORGET BAGHDAD (NEW WORLD ORDER)
1998 PROJECZIUNS TIBETANAS
1997 LA ETA KNABINO
1993 BABYLON 2
1991 IMMER & EWIG
1988 FILOU
1986 MORLOVE - EINE ODE AN HEISENBERG
1984 STUMMFILM

News

ESCHER, DER ENGEL UND DIE FIBONACCI ZAHLEN von Samir am 10.11. auf SF1 2010-11-10
ESCHER, DER ENGEL UND DIE FIBONACCI-ZAHLEN by Samir 2010-06-24

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