From Somewhere To Nowhere

On The Road In China With Photographer Andreas Seibert

Villi Hermann

Hermann’s film centers on Swiss photographer Andreas Seibert whose work focuses on the entire Asiatic territories. High-population centres of enormous size are springing up in China with dizzying speed. With them comes an increased demand for migrant workers in the construction sector, factories, and mines. In growth centres like the Pearl River Delta in Southern China, one hundred million people have already set out from rural, underdeveloped provinces to earn their living there. Seibert and Hermann accompanied the workers repeatedly in order to document their everyday lives and their journey back home. Their stories are told in a collection of striking photographs that provide a close-up portrait to complement the current discussion of economic growth in China. With its combination of photos and video images, this documentary film conveys a unique impression of the scale of this modern migration of peoples, the so called “mingong”, illegal migrant workers. His pictures depict individuals, not just faces lost in a Mao-blue crowd.

Villi Hermann

Born in 1941 in Lucerne. 1969 Receives degree from LSFT (London School of Film Technique). Worked for Swiss television. 1980 Founding of the production company Imagofilm Lugano.

2008 FROM SOMEWHERE TO NOWHERE
2006 GREINA
2006 PEDRA. UN REPORTER SANS FRONTIERES - L'AVENTURE DE JEAN-PIERRE PEDRAZZINI, PHOTO-REPORTER A PARIS MATCH
2005 SAM GABAI. PRESENZE
2004 WALKER. RENZO FERRARI
2003 MUSSOLINI CHURCHILL E CARTOLINE
2000 LUIGI EINAUDI. DIARIO DELL'ESILIO SVIZZERO
1998 TAMARO. PIETRE E ANGELI. MARIO BOTTA E ENZO CUCCHI
1997 GIOVANNI ORELLI. FINESTRE APERTE
1996 PER UN RAGGIO DI GLORIA
1992 EN VOYAGE AVEC JEAN MOHR
1989 BANKOMATT
1986 INNOCENZA
1981 MATLOSA
1980 ES IST KALT IN BRANDENBURG (HITLER TÖTEN)
1977 SAN GOTTARDO
1974 CERCHIAMI PER SUBITO OPERAI, OFFRIAMO...
1970 24 SU 24

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