Catalogue des films de « Peter Nestler »

Based on the eponymous short story by Polish-Israeli writer Etgar Keret and music by Alban Berg, a disturbing film-essay on death and the uneasiness of survivors. Like a traumatic childhood memory, the film mixes the director’s drawings and an...

Ethnologist and adventurer, Count Eric von Rosen was a man of contradictions : interest in the natives of Africa and colonial racism. Nestler embarks on a journey in search of his grandfather.

Jewish painter Leopold Mayer fled his native Frankfurt at the rise of the Nazi regime. Although briefly finding refuge in France, where he changed his name to Leo Maillet, his stay was cut short by Germany’s invasion of Paris. "Flucht" traces...

Nestler accompanies the eponymous poem by Hans Sachs (1540) with his own sketches to recount a Utopian fable on the struggle of the oppressed, addressing adults as well as children. The central question of Nestler’s cinema is raised here in a...

Shot between the USSR, Norway, Finland and Sweden, "Die Nordkalotte" crisscrosses the region where the Samis live (mistakenly called Lapland) to document the pillage of a territory, a people and a culture and to make an observation on modern...

Made from twenty-eight photographs from a Berlin archive collection acquired by Swedish television in 1985, period documents and music by Arnold Schönberg and Anton Webern, this short film explores one particular "catastrophe of rationalisation"...

Humanity’s thirst for knowledge and its consequences, from the Bible to the A-bomb. Nestler uses sixteenth-century engravings and paintings by artists such as Dürer, Grünewald, Holbein the Younger, Hans Weiditz, Sebald Beham and Hans Baldung...

How can one survive persecution, the death of loved ones, the daily violence of a dictatorship? What are the "consequences of oppression" on the psycho-physical balance of survivors, families, children? Shooting in Chile, Nestler demonstrates to...

A touching short film, a little jewel of political finesse on the history of Chili and Sehnsucht for the country. Most of the film is made up of popular works by young exiled Chileans: paintings by Nicolas de la Cruz and Jorge Kuhn, engravings by...

This film produced by Swedish television but never broadcast is aimed at an audience of young people with the goal of connecting Pinochet’s dictatorship to its economic and social causes. It is a remarkable montage of varied images, including...