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- A hunter in a remote and idyllic forest stumbles on a make shift tent fashioned from sheets of plastic and containing the mummified remains of a corpse. A detailed journal found on site reveals the man committed suicide by self-imposed starvation. Who was this man? Why did he kill himself in such a manner? Inspired by this true event and by the novella 'Until I Am a Mummy' by Shimada Masahiko, Insects sensuously evokes the mysterious man's last days.
- A road movie with Roman Signer who travels in the grooves of magically charged landscapes across Europe. From the Swiss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland, it's a large-scale performance art piece at an ideal cruising speed.
- KICK THAT HABIT is a film created in the bleak eastern region of Switzerland. At first, a group plays a game of mini-golf, then the Swiss musicians Voice Crack (Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl) rehearse in the studio, afterward heading up to Alpstein, at which point you are right in the middle of a concert, next stepping away to the blue south, taken back to a table laid for dinner, then relocating down by the lake for the next concert, which fades away into romanticized Russian Super-8 landscapes, until before long you find yourself groping in the dark, when, underneath the water, you return back to the studio, where the movie writes its own soundtrack.
- During the spring thaw, when the mounts in Appenzell (Alpstein massif) are clad in a patchwork of green and white, buckets filled with water glide slowly up and down the slope. The gentle movement ultimately develops into a fierce cadence.
- The story of a man who sets out to get rid of his habit of smoking. Thus he plans to walk from Zurich (Canton of Zurich), his present residence, back to his native town St. Gallen, in Switzerland, where he started to smoke a long time ago.
- Using the railway station in Appenzell as the point of departure, a detonating fuse was placed along the 20.06-kilometer Appenzell - Gais - St. Gallen railway line in Switzerland, and burned at the rate of 150 seconds/meter for 35 days.
- A thirty day music marathon by Swiss musicians Koch-Schütz-Studer turns into a cinematic piece of chamber music.
- The director's intention in "Sommerhügel" is to take the role of a "picture hunter" in order to confront the popular touristic Appenzellerland with his own impressions and sensations of strong sensuality, magic, and love of the landscape.
- Three tapes documenting: 1. Roman Signer's action in conjunction with the opening of the St. Gall Museum of Fine Arts in September 1987; 2. Signer at Forum Stadtpark Graz, 1987; and 3. Signer at documenta 8 in Kassel, September 20th, 1987.
- An attempt at examining the misery in the culture, through the action of Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
- While on vacation, the director takes an excursion to an unfamiliar neighboring canton. There, in the alpine confinement, he finds an ideal echo for the rage he had brought with him: rage towards the mountains, civilization and mentality.
- The scenes of movement and the plots in Roman Signer's action sculptures can be viewed as works of space and time. The directions of movement in the film proceed in a markedly contrasting fashion. Hence, it is called "Vertical/Horizontal".
- "Namibia Crossings" takes a trip through a country of archaic beauty and bizarre contradictions - like an echo on the polyphonic soul-landscapes made up of each individual's highs and lows.
- After the director's death, his partner and some devoted friends put together a multimedia project in three parts to pass Liechti's unfinished last film "Dedications" on to posterity. This is the filmed reading of the script by its author.
- The film is a reproduction of the days during the 1985 Geneva Summit talks between Reagan and Gorbachev, and is rendered, in fact, as exactly as possible as the images, still wonderfully vivid, had been engraved into the director's memory.
- 198710mTV EpisodeThe first tape in the series documents Swiss visual artist Roman Signer's action for the reopening of the St. Gallen Museum of Fine Arts in Switzerland, in September 1987.
- The second tape in the series shows Swiss visual artist Roman Signer's explosive productions in Forum Stadtpark, in Graz (Austria), on the occasion of the Steirischer Herbst event, an interdisciplinary contemporary arts festival, in 1987.
- 198710mTV EpisodeThe third tape in the series addresses and analyzes Swiss visual artist Roman Signer's art show closing action in front of the Orangerie at documenta 8 in Kassel, West Germany, on September 20, 1987.