“Hell” and “Tides” by Tim Fehlbaum
Admittedly, you don’t necessarily notice from his material that Tim Fehlbaum’s films are financed with Swiss francs. Nevertheless, he is currently probably one of the most important Swiss directors: his new film September 5 about the terrorist attack at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 has been invited to international festivals.
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Fehlbaum was previously at home in genre cinema: in 2011, fresh out of film university, he was able to win over blockbuster producer Roland Emmerich as a supporter. He advised against Hell to be implemented as a zombie film as originally planned. Instead, there was an original apocalyptic tale in which solar radiation has increased to such an extent that the characters trudge through a parched wasteland, which the film brings to life through overexposed sepia images.
2021 followed Tideswhich once again criticizes human exploitation of the planet. In the science fiction film, a young astronaut returns to Earth, which in this case is not a desert but a truly blue planet: twice a day the tides flood all remaining land. There she looks for her father, who was lost on a previous mission, but initially meets hostile survivors. Cameraman Markus Förderer once again creates a dreary but well thought-out and independent visual language. Both films mark Fehlbaum as a director to keep an eye on.
Mathis Raabe
