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Monte Grande
CH 2004 80'
Director: Franz Reichle
Script: Franz Reichle
Camera: Franz Reichle, Matthias Kälin
Sound: Franz Reichle
Editing: Franz Reichle
Monte Grande
What is life?
Franz Reichle
How is it possible for body and mind to exist as an integrated whole? The Chilean neurobiologist Francisco Varela devoted his entire life – from childhood to death – to answer this question. The structure of the film is based on Varela's non-linear thinking and focuses on autopoiesis, ethics, consciousness, meditation and dying. The film also includes narrative accounts and reflections from Varela himself, his relatives, leading scientists, friends and thinkers, such as His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Heinz von Foerster as the father of cybernetics, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Evan Thompson, Anne Harrington, Humberto Maturana etc. Three key concepts shape the film: the relationship between body and mind (embodiment), the meaning of self responsibility (autonomy) and spirituality.
"Franz Reichle begins this cinematic portrait of Francisco Varela with Schroedinger's famous
question, What is Life? This question also preoccupied Varela as a scientist, but Reichle
subtly and surely transforms it into another, far more compelling concern, namely, What is a
life? The film follows Varela through his many achievements, but it achieves its mission most
powerfully with Varela's rapprochement with death. Here, in this journey, Varela finds the
meaning of his life as a man, and Reichle finds his film. A powerful and beautiful
achievement."
Evelyn Fox Keller
Franz Reichle
Born in 1949. Studies at the School of Art and Design Zurich. 1974-80 Studies at the University of Art Hamburg. 1989-95 Stay in Buryatia, east Siberia. Since 1996 lecturer at the ZHDK (Zurich University of the Arts).
2004 MONTE GRANDE - WHAT IS LIFE?
1997 DAS WISSEN VOM HEILEN
1992 TRAUMZEIT
1990 LYNX
1986 AUGENBLICK
1978 ROSMARIE, SUSANNE, RUTH
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