Peter Liechti

Swiss filmmaker, scriptwriter and camera man Peter Liechti (1951) started his filmmaking career with Sommerhügel in 1984; he has since built up an idiosyncratic body of work consisting of both documentary and fictional experimental films, most of them short and shot on 16 mm. Signature characteristics of his works include an essayistic use of fictional texts, music, voice over and narration. His latest film, The Sound of Insects – Record of a Mummy, which will have its international premiere in Rotterdam 2009, is an adaptation of the novella ‘Miira ni narumade’ (‘Until I am a Mummy’) by Shimada Masahiko. The novella is based on the actual diary of a man who committed suicide by starving himself. —International Film Festival Rotterdam