My Life as a Film

Movie"How My Father Tried To Capture Happiness"
My Life as a Film
NR 1 hr 17 minFamily, Documentary
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.
DirectorEva Vitija
WriterEva Vitija

Movie Details

Original Language:German
Production Companies:SwissDok GmbH, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, SRF