N e w D ocs – F eat u res
In Art We Trust Benoît Rossel
Switzerland / France 2017, 85 min. Original languages: French / English World premiere: Solothurn Film Festival 2017 International premiere: CPH:DOX Copenhagen 2017 Production: Close Up Films, Geneva Zadig Productions, Paris RTS Radio Télévision Suisse World Rights: Close Up Films, Geneva T +41 22 808 08 46 joelle@closeupfilms.ch www.closeupfilms.ch
A portrait of a mysterious occupation, often seen as sacred by some, and disparaged or considered pretentious by others. By questioning the ambitions, the doubts, the strategies, the compromises, the hard times, and the lean years of unusual artists, symbolic of the entire profession, the film describes the passage of an artist today, from the beginning to the end of his professional life. A lively, playful and moving allegory of the image of the artist in contemporary society.
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* 1969 in France. Documentary filmmaker Benoît Rossel has both Swiss and French citizenship and studied film at ECAL in Lausanne. Since 1997 Rossel also works as professor at the Visual Communication Department of ECAL. He is especially known for his last documentary LE THÉÂTRE DES OPÉRATIONS (2007) for which he was awarded as Best Swiss Film at Visions du Réel in Nyon.