My Life as a Film
MovieTitle | Das Leben drehen |
User score | 0 |
Release date | May 5, 2016 |
Genre | Family, Documentary |
Director | Eva Vitija |
Production country | Switzerland |
Production companies | SwissDok GmbH, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, SRF |
Run time | 77 min. |
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life. It infuriated me, because I had attempted to get away from his camera all my childhood. My father, filmmaker Joschy Scheidegger, documented our family obsessively. It was only when he died that I was impelled to take over not only his extensive film archive, but also his camera. «My Life as a Film» is a personal search for the surprising truths hidden behind my father’s pictures. A philosophical family story about filming and the attempt to capture life.