Flavio Paolucci – From Guelmim to Biasca
In 2022, an exhibition on the Swiss painter-sculptor Flavio Paolucci was planned in a German museum. The museum had reserved a white wall on which the artist was to create a work. Everything was prepared, but the pandemic prevented the 88-year-old artist from traveling. So, Flavio Paolucci had the idea of creating this mural in his studio and then destroying it. This ephemeral artistic gesture prompted the filmmaker to make this portrait.
Cast
- Artist - Painter
- Flavio Paolucci
- Galeristin
- Margit Biedermann
- Galeristin
- Alice Pauli
Flavio Paolucci – From Guelmim to Biasca
Villi Hermann
- Documentary
- Production Country / Year
- Switzerland 2024
- Language
- it., dt., frz. OF m. dt. UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 64min
1.78:1 (16:9), Discrete 5.1
- Original Title
- Flavio Paolucci – Da Guelmim a Biasca
Nominated for:
Granit – Hofer Dokumentarfilmpreis
Director & Crew
Villi Hermann
Born in 1941 in Lucerne/Switzerland. Studied at the London Film School. Worked for the broadcasters SFR and RSI. Active as a director, producer, editor, and cinematographer.
Filmography
| 1970 | 24 su 24 | Dokumentarfilm | |
| 1974 | Cerchiamo per subitooperai, offriamo... | Dokumentarfilm | |
| 1977 | San Gottardo | Spielfilm/Dokumentarfilm | |
| 1980 | Es ist kalt in Brandenburg | Spielfilm/Dokumentarfilm | |
| 1981 | Matlosa | Spielfilm | |
| 1986 | Innocenza/Unschuld | Spielfilm | |
| 1989 | Bankomatt | Spielfilm | |
| Tamaro. pietre e angeli. Mario Botta Enzo Cucchi | Dokumentarfilm | ||
| 1992 | En voyage avec Jean Mohr | Dokumentarfilm | |
| 2000 | Luigi Einaudi. Diario dell'esilio svizzero | Dokumentarfilm | |
| 2003 | Mussolini, Churchill und Postkarten | Dokumentarfilm | |
| 2006 | Pédra. ein Reporter ohne Grenzen | Dokumentarfilm | |
| 2009 | From Somewhere to Nowhere | Dokumentarfilm | |
| 2011 | Gotthard Schuh. una visione sensuale del mondo | Dokumentarfilm | |
| 2017 | Choisir a vingt ans | Dokumentarfilm | |
| 2024 | Flavio Paolucci. Da Guelmim a Biasca | Dokumentarfilm | 2024 |
“Flavio Paolucci doesn’t talk much and doesn’t expose himself too much to the art market. He is a man of the mountain valley, taciturn, who knows how to listen to his neighbors, to the people who work. He doesn’t go to openings but visits his colleagues’ exhibitions later, quietly and unhurriedly.
Flavio Paolucci is a nature person; he still takes walks in the woods near his studio every day. You always find nature in his paintings. This is not a trend of recent years that can be seen in globalized art; for Flavio Paolucci, nature lives within him and alongside him and is transformed into art for all of us. He loves the silence in his studio and the silence of the nearby forest. For this reason, I made a film with the 90-year-old Ticinese painter and sculptor ‘in exile.’”
Villi Hermann
- Writer
- Villi Hermann
- Eve Martin
- Director of Photography
- Alberto Meroni
- Editor
- Alberto Meroni
- Set Designer
- Daniele Crimella
- Sound Designer
- Marco Viale
- Music Composer
- Zeno Gabaglio
- TV Commissioning Editor
- Silvana Bezzola Rigolini
- Producer
- Villi Hermann
