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My Life as a Film

"How My Father Tried To Capture Happiness"

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When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life. It infuriated me, because I had attempted to get away from his camera all my childhood. My father, filmmaker Joschy Scheidegger, documented our family obsessively. It was only when he died that I was impelled to take over not only his extensive film archive, but also his camera. «My Life as a Film» is a personal search for the surprising truths hidden behind my father’s pictures. A philosophical family story about filming and the attempt to capture life.

Director
Studio
SwissDok GmbH, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, SRF
Original Title
Das Leben drehen
Original Language
German
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