surveillance &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:surveillance @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:27:35 +0200 Swissmade [Swiss Made 2069] (Fritz E. https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-75m6 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Swissmade [Swiss Made 2069] (Fritz E. Maeder, Fredi M. Murer + Yves Yersin, 1968)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="occasion" Alien/div div class="img" Swissmade (1968)/div div class="caption" A man hooked up to a device with tubes dreams about a strange, unsettling creature. Just out of a frame someone (H.R. Giger himself) works on the being with a grinder. DPs: Witold Lesiewicz, Fritz E. Maeder & Fredi M. Murer./div div class="txt" [A favourite] Alien ["alien"?] movie &nbsp; Three segments envision the future of the Swiss Confederation. In the Fredi M. Murer instalment 2069 - oder wo sich Futorologen und Archäologen gute Nacht sagen, an alien visits surveillance state Switzerland. The visitor in question is designed by H.R. Giger, and glimpses of the XX121 xenomorph are present in its exoskeletal core. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for October is horror-themed as opposed to date-based, and is all about favourites. Expect non-horror and films I believe to be relevant instead. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #FritzEMaeder #FrediMMurer #YvesYersin #EstherAltdorfer #HannesBosshard #CarmenCorti #HRGiger #ToniVescoli #WitoldLesiewicz #drama #dystopia #surveillance #SciFi #aliens #AnthologyFilm #Switzerland #1960s/div /section ]]>

Swissmade [Swiss Made 2069] (Fritz E. Maeder, Fredi M. Murer + Yves Yersin, 1968)

Oct

20

Alien

Swissmade (1968)

A man hooked up to a device with tubes dreams about a strange, unsettling creature. Just out of a frame someone (H.R. Giger himself) works on the being with a grinder. DPs: Witold Lesiewicz, Fritz E. Maeder & Fredi M. Murer.

[A favourite] Alien [“alien”?] movie*

 

Three segments envision the future of the Swiss Confederation. In the Fredi M. Murer instalment 2069 – oder wo sich Futorologen und Archäologen gute Nacht sagen, an alien visits surveillance state Switzerland. The visitor in question is designed by H.R. Giger, and glimpses of the XX121 xenomorph are present in its exoskeletal core.

 

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for October is horror-themed as opposed to date-based, and is all about favourites. Expect non-horror and films I believe to be relevant instead.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #FritzEMaeder #FrediMMurer #YvesYersin #EstherAltdorfer #HannesBosshard #CarmenCorti #HRGiger #ToniVescoli #WitoldLesiewicz #drama #dystopia #surveillance #SciFi #aliens #AnthologyFilm #Switzerland #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-75m6 Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0200 Der Riese [The Giant] (Michael Klier, 1983/1984) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-mpdj <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Der Riese [The Giant] (Michael Klier, 1983/1984)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" freebie: a movie from 1984/div div class="img" Der Riese (1983/1984)/div div class="caption" A woman, we only see her hands, waits at a counter while clutching her purse. Her handbag is next to her. The camera focusses on the small space reserved to count out money. DP: n/a./div div class="txt" January 21 redux: a film from 1984 on the date Orwell died (1950). "The film is about observing, about glances that see without being seen, a dubious art of light and visibility." ### – Michael Klier, via According to Harun Farocki, Der Riese was the first narrative film completely compiled out of surveillance footage./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #GeorgeOrwell #MichaelKlier #FoundFootage #ExperimentalFilm #surveillance #documentary #WestGermany #1980s/div /section ]]>

Der Riese [The Giant] (Michael Klier, 1983/1984)

Feb

15

freebie: a movie from 1984

Der Riese (1983/1984)

A woman, we only see her hands, waits at a counter while clutching her purse. Her handbag is next to her. The camera focusses on the small space reserved to count out money. DP: n/a.

January 21 redux: a film from 1984 on the date Orwell died (1950).

“The film is about observing, about glances that see without being seen, a dubious art of light and visibility.”

– Michael Klier, via

According to Harun Farocki, Der Riese was the first narrative film completely compiled out of surveillance footage.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #GeorgeOrwell #MichaelKlier #FoundFootage #ExperimentalFilm #surveillance #documentary #WestGermany #1980s

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