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Unrest
Cyril Schäublin
12 Jun 2022
12 Jun 2022
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New technology transforms a Swiss watchmaking town in the 19th century. Joséphine, a young worker, fits balance springs, which oscillate inside the mechanism of the watch. Finding out about new ways of organising money, time and work, she joins the local movement of anarchist watchmakers, where she meets a Russian traveller, Pierre Kropotkin.
“In Unrest, Cyril Schäublin roams a Swiss village at a time when anarchism was a lively movement – the late 19th century. Drawing on Pierre Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist and working with amateur actors in a stunning setting, he reproduces the activities organised around a watch making factory, symbol of capitalist circularity – by producing watches, the workers actually help their overlords control them. Unrest is like a welcome reminder: while we take refuge at home, the Earth keeps on spinning.” Olivia Cooper-Hadjian, Cahiers du Cinéma, March 2022
Cyril Schäublin, Unrest (Unrueh), Switzerland, 2022, DCP, 93 min, col., original version, French subtitles.
With Clara Gostynski, Alexei Evstratov, Monika Stalder, Hélio Thiémard and Li Tavor.
Encounters – Prize for Best Director 2022
Preview ahead of the competition GNCR FIDMarseille 2022
Attended by Cyril Schäublin, Carlo Chatrian and a member of FID Lab
Where
Petite salle, level –1
When
12 Jun 2022
Cyril Schaublin, Unrest, 2022
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