The Amateurs
Les amateurs
Switzerland
1991
26 Min
Black and White
Italian, German
DIR Daniel Schmid
SCR Daniel Schmid
ED Daniela Roderer
BAFICI (Foco Daniel Schmid)
Synopsis
The Amateurs is part of the Film du Cinéma Suisse series directed by Freddy Buache, in which twelve filmmakers avail themselves of a wealth of Swiss cinema archive material and film sequences, from 1896 to the current day, in order to produce twelve medium-length films. Using early family, tourist and publicity films, Schmid articulates the pleasures of filming –the play of amateurs–, visiting Switzerland, both in front and behind the camera. –BAFICI
Director
Daniel Schmid
Daniel Schmid (1941-2006) was a Swiss film and theatre director. In 1992, at his 51 years of age, he created Hors saison, a film that is sort of the key to his oeuvre and his life.
Unlike many other filmmakers of his generation who, following the spirit of the ’60s and the New Swiss Film movement, were not averse to being regarded as socially and politically committed cultural professionals, Schmid considered himself, first and foremost, an artist. In the truest sense of the word, that which defines the artist as a master of a craft out of which something genuinely new, artificial as well as artistic, is created. For Daniel Schmid, what we call reality is the raw material from which he shaped new worlds and realities. –BAFICI
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