Christoph Schaub — Director (6)

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Stöffitown (2015)
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Stöffi ist bald erwachsen. Aufgrund seiner geistigen Beeinträchtigung ist er aber noch weit davon entfernt, selbstständig zu sein. Er lebt mit seiner alleinerziehenden Mutter Antonia in Einsiedeln. Stöffi ist eine Frohnatur und vermag so manchem Kunden im kleinen Lebensmittelladen seiner Mutter mit lustigen Sprüchen und ausladenden Gesten ein Lächeln ins Gesicht zu zaubern!

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Julia's Disappearance (2009)
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other title: 줄리아 사라지다 / O desaparecimento de Julia …
A comedy about aging, youth and other eternal truths. Of all days, precisely on her fiftieth birthday, Julia has to experience that age makes you invisible. Frustrated, she goes shopping and makes an acquaintance, spontaneously deciding to spend the evening with this stranger, rather than with the guests of her own birthday party. They wait for her in a restaurant, all dressed up and groomed, lively debating the years that have passed. The truths and wisdom of Julia's closest friends on aging and growing old are drowned increasingly in sufficient quantities of alcohol. In the mean time, on her eightieth birthday, Leonie, sulking over the loss of youth, is rebelling against her daughter, the senior citizen's home, conventions, and old age in general - and joyfully sabotaging the party in her honor.

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鸟巢:赫尔佐格和德梅隆在中国 (2008)
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other title: Bird's Nest - Herzog & De Meuron in China
Superstar architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron must negotiate between two cultures, two architectural traditions, and two political systems to build the new National Stadium for the Olympics in Beijing. Bird's Nest, available exclusively via Amazon Unbox. - Written by Anonymous

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Architecture of Infinity (2018)
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other title: 无限的建筑 / Architektur der Unendlichkeit
In Japanese aesthetics, Wabi-Sabi describes a continuous cycle of becoming and passing away. Temporality and age are inherent in every object and creature and, depending on one’s outlook, may transcend to infinity. How can this be imagined? What goes beyond it? The filmmaker Christoph Schaub starts his very personal journey through time and space in his childhood, when his fascination with sacred buildings began – and his wonder at beginnings and ends. Architecture helps separate the finite and the infinite. It offers protection from what is boundless, at the same time creating a sense of vastness, the narrator claims. Together with architects and artists he explores the magic of sacred spaces, defined here as far more than church buildings. The artist James Turrell, known, among other things, for his “Skyspaces”, reflects on who owns spirituality – fundamental for this film which follows “spiritual life” in architecture and the fine arts, but also in nature, and literally lifts it over and above the limits of thinking. A slightly floating camera immerses us in other-worldly, somnambulistic images, takes us on a sensual and sensing journey through vast spaces, and guides our eye towards the infinity of the starry sky and the depths of the ocean. Past and present, primeval times and light years, it’s all there.