Die Vogelpredigt

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Clemens Klopfenstein

ST FRANCIS BIRD TOUR

Max and Polo, two aging actors from Bern, look up their one-time director in order to pitch him their film idea, a sequel to their last great success 10 years ago. After a number of breakdowns with their car in the wintry Appenines, they finally arrive at the director’s Umbrian retreat. A bit of a hermit now, the director has become an ascetic, more interested in monasteries than mainstream consumer culture. However, he asks Max and Polo to do some test shots for a Franciscan film he is working on. As they are led off into the woods in Monks’ habits, reciting and chanting, the hapless duo has no idea what they have let themselves in for. With one-time Bond girl Ursula Andress in the role of God’s mother, Klopfenstein’s film is an entertaining romp about movie making in Switzerland.

"Philosophizing with film: this is how one could characterize Clemens Klopfenstein's DIE VOGEL PREDIGT, whereby 'philosophizing' is to be understood in a very broad sense. Reflecting and brooding are as much a part of it as are tomfoolery and everyday conversation as a form of thinking out loud, which can result in some realization or another – or not. The medium of film is thereby not merely an instrument of documentation, but at the same time also a means of stimulation and itself in turn the object of often ironically broken reflection and examination... DIE VOGEL PREDIGT is a home movie and costume film, an experimental film and genre cinema; there is no difference between the trivial and the sublime – the stigmata that, so to speak, ennoble the designated portrayer of Francis of Assisi, Max, are made from the blood of cheap horror films."
Thomas Allenbach

Clemens Klopfenstein

Born in 1944 on Lake Biel. Attended art school in Basel and in Zurich. Film courses with Kurt Früh in Zurich. Since 1963 painter and filmmaker. 1974 Grant for art in Rome. 1981 Received DAAD film grant in Berlin. Art exhibitions in Italy and Switzerland.

2009 THE IT.ALIENS
2009 WEG NACH RIO
2005 DIE VOGELPREDIGT
2000 WERANGSTWOLF
1999 ALPTRAUM (Tatort)
1997 DAS SCHWEIGEN DER MÄNNER
1994 DIE GEMMI - EIN ÜBERGANG
1992 FÜÜRLAND 2
1991 DAS VERGESSENE TAL
1990 STONES, STORM AND WATER
1989 ET IN ARCADIA EGO
1988 MACAO ODER DIE RÜCKSEITE DES MEERES
1984 DER RUF DER SYBILLA
1982 DAS SCHLESISCHE TOR
1981 E NACHTLANG FÜURLAND
1981 TRANSES - REITER AUF DEM TOTEN PFERD
1979 GESCHICHTE DER NACHT
1974 DIE FABRIKANTEN
1970 VARIETE CLARA
1968 NACH RIO
1967 WIR STERBEN VOR
1966 UMLEITUNG

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