FA 2024 | The Mies van der Rohes

Would architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe have achieved international fame if it wasn’t for a number of distinctive female figures who had his back? Much has been said about this world-famous architect, who worked at the Bauhaus with Walter Gropius and Paul Klee, and after emigrating from Germany became one of the most prominent architects in the United States. But director Sabine Gisiger now turns her attention to the women in his life, who were hindered by old-fashioned customs and outdated traditions. The film combines archival footage with the fictionalized testimony of his daughter Georgia, a dancer and filmmaker, who retells for us the sweeping family saga of the modernist era.

Sabine Gisiger
Switzerland | 2023
81 min | German, English, Czech subs

Sabine Gisiger (*1959 in Zurich) studied history in Zurich and Pisa and graduated in 1988 with a dissertation on the history of maids. In 1989 she trained as a television journalist at Swiss Television and then worked for years as a reporter.

Since 1990 Sabine Gisiger has been making documentaries as a freelance filmmaker. In 2000 her documentary DO IT, which she made together with Marcel Zwingli, attracted international attention and in 2001 she received the film prize for the best Swiss documentary. She had further international success with the feature films GAMBIT, GURU and YALOM‘S CURE, all nominated for the Swiss Film Award.

Since 2002, she has also been a professor of documentary film at the Zurich University of the Arts.

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