Samir
Born 1955 in Baghdad. Lives and works in Zurich. Film author and co-owner of Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG.
00:00 Start. 00:14: Iraqi meets Swiss girl. 01:22: Privileged yet persecuted. 02:31: In Dübendorf, a workers‘ suburb of Zurich. 03:17: Immersed in the world of books and TV. 04:47: Vietnam – a decisive experience with a teacher. 06:22: My apprenticeship as a typographer and my growing interest in film. 07:26: Just film it. 08:12: Filming from scratch: best boy at Condor Film. 08:38 The activists from the collective “Videoladen”. 10:49: My first video camera and ‘200 Motels’. 12:08: Bread-and-butter jobs and my start at the “Videoladen” – My commitment to auteur video. 13:17: A collective video adventure: Morlove – an Ode for Heisenberg. 16:19: The decade of radical change. 18:01: Video at its peak. 19:13: DSCHOINT VENTSCHR Filmproduction: We sell ideas. 20:02: My wish for Secondos. 22:02: Credits
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