Il / The Manimàl is a study about a man in the bath. Composed with only a few seconds of real action,
the tape focuses on the mans body, the water, his erotic play with a handle. Thereby the video gives
an entire image of the protagonist and his desires.
C.V.
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1964 born in Chur/GR (Switzerland)
1984 graduation in Chur
1984 - 1985 study of german and art-history at the university of
Zürich
1988 - 1992 film-/videostudies at the art school Lausanne, Dép. de
l*audiovisuel (DAVI)
1992 living as independant video- and fil-director in Basel
WORKS (selection)
2000 *Not Vital - half Man, half animal*, 55 Min. TV-Dok
(SFDRS/TvR/3Sat/ORF)
Fesitvals: Solothurn, Paris, Montreal, Napoli
1999 *il/the Manimal* Video and Prints
Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur 2000
nominated and streamed for Viper-online-quicktime-competition 2000
also shown at Festival Science et Cité Bern 2001
1998 - 2000 *Internationales Videofenster* Basel (25 silent
art-videos, shown nonstop 365 days a year)
also shown at Niet de Kunstvlaai in Amsterdam (1998)
also shown at Langenthal (Media Skulptur 99) and in Kopenhagen (2000)
1998 *Time/Crime* 2 Videos for the exhibition «Tatort Vergangenheit»
of the Historic Museum Liestal
1997 *empty trash*, animation-video, Beta SP, 2,30 Min. (Int.
Shortfilmfestival Hamburg, shorts Amsterdam, International Media
Art Biennale Wroclaw, Pentacon Dresden)
1995 *Paris Programmes*, Videoinstallation (Cité des arts Paris)
*ein Virus für Dessau*, experimental-video, U-matic SP (Ostranenie
Video Forum Dessau)
*Lettre d*une ville inconnue* experimental-video, Beta SP, 9 Min.
(Festivals: Luzern, Basel, Zürich, Biel, Baden, Kassel; Videothèque
de Paris, Bündner Kunstmuseum)
*Perlon, Petticoats und Pestizide* audiovisual design for the
exhibiton of the university Basel
1994 *Wilder Hunger*, Fiction, 16 mm, 18 Min. (Festivals: Basel,
Solothurn, Kiev, Salzburg, Poitiers)
*Restriskant* Mail-Art with Gruppe 10, Karlsruhe
1993 *Touch-screen I&II*, U-matic SP, each 1 Min. (Festivals: Basel,
Estavar- Llivia)
*Pastorale electronique no.1, U-matic SP, 2 Min. (Neues Kino Basel)
*Cité industrielle*, U-matic SP, 1 Min. (Festival: Estavar-Llivia)
SCHOLARSHIPS / AWARDS
2000 Free Scholarship of the Kanton Graubünden
2001 Kulturförderpreis of the Stadt Chur
1999 USA-Scholarship of the Elisabeth Forberg Stiftung
1996 Eidg. Studienprämie for *Lettre d*une ville (inconnue)*
1996 Kulturförderpreis of the Kanton Graubünden
1995 Scholarship for the Cité internationale des Arts, Paris
