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Esquisses de vie
CH 2009 35'
Director: Janka Rahm
Camera: Camille Cottagnoud
Sound: Marc von Stürler, Jérôme Cuendet
Editing: Karine Sudan
Music: Julien Sulser
Production: BSA-FAS
Esquisses de vie
Janka Rahm
Architecture is a vocation and a passion for many. In this movie, established and upcoming architects undertake a personal analysis of their creative process.
A hand – by no means a young one any more
– moves a pen across a sheet of paper with
routine precision. It is the hand of Beate
Schnitter from Zurich, who used to work as
an architect and still very much is one to this
day. She is one of several established and upand-
coming architects who speak before the
camera about their profession, vocation, passion
and raison d`être, in ESQUISSES DE VIE
Their statements are a personal analysis of
their relationship to architecture and to the
space it occupies in their lives. For Tobias
Klauser the whole thing started with a drawing
of the cross-section of a ladybird in a natural
history book. Being an alpinist helped
HeidiWenger to regard towns and villages as
part of a larger space. Letizia Curti wants to
build perfect family homes, where people can
lead fulfilled, happy lives. However different
their approaches to architecture and the
plans they draw, one thing all the protagonists
have in common is that their work as
architects gives them the opportunity to
express themselves.
Filmmaker Janka Rahm has taken a simple,
subtle approach to staging her subjects. She
shoots them in their everyday studio workspaces.
Nonetheless, apart from the handdrawn
sketches, the working space remains
a peripheral matter in this film; it focuses
on the human beings behind the works of
architecture rather than on architecture itself.
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