Kick That Habit (2009)

Kick That Habit is a 1989 film by PETER LIECHTI an audiovisual portrait of his native country eastern Switzerland The film collects samples from the landandsoundscape underscoring in the process the oftignored industrial underpinning of our latterday culture Also native to eastern Switzerland is VOICE CRACK the everyday household electronics duo of NORBERT MOSLANG and ANDY GUHL whose musical workings are explored as part of Liechti s vision Whether clicking quietly and rhythmically or humming and shrieking at earsplitting volume their recycled electronics produce innovative sounds and provide an appropriate accompaniment in this cinematic search for the detritus of our culture the lost and destroyed remains of the last century of progress