Film Programme
LIVE FAST, DIE OLD
documentary , Mon, 12:30
Switzerland, 2009, 24'
Director: Martina Loher Rodríguez
Producer: Fabrice Aragno
Director of photography: Julie Fischer
Writer: Ursula Haas
Editor: Niccolò Castelli
Synopsis: How to grow up when you are a punk? The film raises the question through the stories of Silvia and Gössi, who were part of the first and second wave of the punk movement in Switzerland. Silvia, the lead singer of the former Zurich band "Mother's Ruin" is now living quite a bourgeois life while Gössi still tours with his band "Moped Lads". Both are coming from the same background, but have faced the “No Future” in different ways…
Director: Martina Loher Rodríguez
*1977 in Zurich, Switzerland, lives and works currently in Berlin / 1998–2001: Studies History and History of Cinema at University of Lausanne / 2001–2005: Studies Fine Arts at HEAD, Geneva University of Art and Design / 2003–2004: Erasmus at Escola Massana in Barcelona / 2006-2008 Master of Arts in Film direction, Reséau Cinéma CH, in Switzerland. / Awards: Neumann Award, City of Geneva, in 2005; FCAC Award, Canton of Geneva, in 2006; Artist residency in Berlin, in 2010.