“Why do I remember one thing and not the other?” In her film essay Grandfather Never Saw the Sea, Christine Hürzeler explores her own family history in an unusual and unusually poetic way. The film-maker interlaces family recordings, found footage and recent images into a visual and acoustic examination of her origins. Beyond the personal, Hürzeler’s film is astonishingly accurate in documenting the atmosphere of an entire era.

biografia

Born in Solothurn in 1967, lives and Works in Zurich. Studies in geography, sociology and ethnology at Universities of Fribourg and Zurich. From 2001 onwards diverse film-related training courses, including documentary film-making, and film studies (FOCAL Bern and Zurich Universities of the Arts, University of Zurich). Since 2001 collaboration on a variety of research capacities, and as Assistant Director.

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