Cyril Schäublin

Unrueh

Cyril Schäublin

Stefano Knuchel, Valentin Merz Tanören

In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement ("unrueh") of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work and possession in the village and its factory and joins the anarchist worker movement of the local watchmakers. There she meets Piotr Kropotkin, a moony Russian traveller. The two of them meet at a time when new technologies such as time measurement, photography and the telegraph are transforming the social order and anarchist discourse is addressing emerging nationalism. During a walk in the woods, Josephine and Piotr ask themselves whether time, money and the government are not all but fictions.

Il faut fabriquer ses cadeaux

Cyril Schäublin

Clara Gostynski, Miriam Leonardi

As snow falls over a city, people share secret tricks with each other. Like how to kiss somebody and make them disappear, or having thoughts which are unrecognizable to machines.

Dene wos guet geit

Cyril Schäublin

Sarah Stauffer, Nikolai Bosshardt

Using her skills of selling Internet and insurance deals, young call center employee Alice calls up elderly strangers and pretends to be their granddaughter in urgent need of money. As this trick quickly makes her rich, the film observes people and places in Zurich, all mysteriously connected to Alice’s business.

Stampede

Cyril Schäublin

Dagna Litzenberger-Vinet, Urs Jucker

A mass panic at a vast subway station somewhere in the Northwestern hemisphere leaves its survivors perplexed. What happened to trigger the stampede? At the peak of the rush hour the film goes on a journey into the landscape of public fears.

Lenny

Cyril Schäublin

Lilith Stangenberg, Anton Ambrosino

Two teenagers' lives are brought together through internet webcams. Anton's desire is awakened after discovering Lenny's personal video blog on YouTube. Away from the screen, Anton wanders through the big city, wondering whether his virtual meeting with Lenny has a place in the real world.

Modern Times

Cyril Schäublin

A contemplative search for traces of life in an abandoned industrial area, which once used to be the biggest and most modern coal mine in the world.

Public Library

Cyril Schäublin

Andrea Roden, Christobal Gomez

“I think this is one of the only places in Seattle where people can come and everybody is the same.” Christopher Hogan, Security Officer Created for the exhibition "Culture:City" curated by the architects Mathias Sauerbruch (Sauerbruch/Hutton) and Wilfried Wang, Akademie der Künste Berlin

Mein Bruder, der Rabe

Cyril Schäublin

Mario Carl Heer

"The savage lives within himself, while social man lives constantly outside himself, and only knows how to live in the opinion of others." -Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Kropotkin

Cyril Schäublin

In 1887, Peter Kropotkin stayed briefly in the Swiss Jura, fiefdom of the watchmaking industry and epicentre of the international anarchist movement. He would retain a strong impression of his encounter with the highly organised local workers, whose “equalitarian relationships and independent thought” he would praise in his diary. 140 years after the “conversion” of this man who was to theorise libertarian communism a little later on, Cyril Schäublin restages fragments of this diary read in Russian, in the current setting. A place in which his ancestors, who worked from generation to generation in the watchmaking manufactures of this region until their closure, still survive.

θάνατος

Cyril Schäublin

Paola Calvo Picado, Theo Solnik

Silent short film by Cyril Schäublin.