Catalogue des films de « Werner Penzel »
6 films |
Auteur-Réalisateur, Image | Suisse | 2007
A young couple makes their way from Paris to Marseille in an old VW bus. But this is no ordinary road trip, and the expedition has firm rules: they must make a stop at each and every service area they pass, stay the night in every second one and...
Auteur-Réalisateur | Suisse, Allemagne, France | 2004
A letterbox in a wintry forest on a narrow road in the middle of nowhere: this is where Yusef Lateef lives, and this is where we visit him together with the filmmakers. Secluded from the world, the jazz musician lives on his own with his...
Image | Allemagne | 2000
Heinrich Himmler's three-and-a-half-hour-long "Posen Speech" to ninety-two SS generals in the Golden Hall of Posen Castle (Poland) on the occasion of the SS Group Leader's conference on the fourth of October, 1943 is "one of the most terrifying...
Auteur-Réalisateur | Suisse | 1997
"This film is the magnificent chronicle of the preparation for a concert by the Chicago Art Ensemble. Shot by Werner Penzel and Nicolas Humbert, it invites us into the studio, into the very heart of the music. During the magic rehearsal period,...
Auteur-Réalisateur | Allemagne, Suisse | 1995
The essence of any experience, any moment, is to be found where people are in most intense contact with the place they occupy. And paradoxically, it is through a nomadic existence that one occupies a space the most intensely. Whether the nature of...
Auteur-Réalisateur | Allemagne, Suisse | 1990
In "Step Across the Border" two forms of artistic expression, improvised music and cinema direct, are interrelated. In both forms it is the moment that counts, the intuitive sense for what is happening in a space. Music and film come into...