Swatch Art Peace Hotel: from Shanghai to Locarno.
All the way from Shanghai to Locarno, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel celebrates its 10th anniversary at the Locarno Film Festival, where Swatch is Official Partner also in 2021.
From August 4th to 14th, an international traveling exhibition features the works of four filmmakers from the artists residency.
The exhibition is on view at the BaseCamp: ex-army headquarter transformed during the film festival in an open and inclusive place. Here 150 young creatives between 18 and 30 years old, selected from the major art and film schools in Switzerland, live and work together.
The BaseCamp is a shared community experience where to discover new ideas and cultural approaches.
In this hub of creativity, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel presents the works of the following filmmakers:
Jabulile Nadia Newman (South Africa), artist-in-residence in 2021
Foxy Five
The webseries brings lessons from intersectional feminism in post-Apartheid South Africa through five characters.
Oren Gerner (Israel), artist-in-residence in 2019
Gabriel
A 16 years old teenager is going with his classmates through the forest, looking for Gabriel, a missing kid from his boarding school. After a violent incident he is separating from the group and starts to wander alone in the forest. He slowly drifts away from the searching crew, deeper into the forest, deeper into his consciousness, until he finally merges with the essence of Gabriel.
Greenland
Oren comes to his parents' house to pack his belongings before moving with his girlfriend to their new apartment. During this day, the family dynamics reveal themselves, and exposes Oren's place- between child and adult, between intimacy and alienation. The house constitutes the space in which past, present and future mix into a chronicle of separation.
Pedro Collantes (Spain), artist-in-residence in 2013
Ato San Nen
Marisa is a widow who lives alone with her dog Tico. One day, she receives the unexpected visit of Hiroshi, a Japanese gentleman who claims to be friends with her son. Despite the absence of a common language, Hiroshi and Marisa try to communicate with each other. Official selection for César Award for best short film 2019. Pedro’s latest film L’Arte de volver has been presented at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.
Elizabeth Lo (USA/Hong Kong), artist-in-residence in 2018/2019
Stray: Bodrum
Whether through bustling streets or decrepit ruins, the gaze of three stray dogs provides a window into the overlooked corners of Turkish society. Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal lead us on inconspicuous journeys throughout Istanbul, allowing for unusual and unvarnished portraits of human and canine life.
Stray: Kars
A pack of dogs survive on the outskirts of a mosque in the religious city of Kars, Turkey.
Hotel 22
Each night in Silicon Valley, a public bus transforms into an unofficial shelter for the homeless. Hotel 22 captures a single, dramatic night on the Line 22 route.
