Description
Russian premiere
Silvesterchlausen is a mysterious tradition that takes place every New Year’s Eve in Switzerland’s Appenzell, the most conservative part of the country. Groups of six men dress in ornate costumes and engage in wordless, polyphonic yodeling and rhythmic bell clanging. The ritual has been performed for at least 500 years, but nobody knows how or why it began.
About the director:
Andrew Norman Wilson
Born in 1983 in the United States, he is a visual artist, filmmaker, curator, and lecturer based between Europe and the US. Working across video, sculpture, photography, and performance, Wilson received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. He is best known for Workers Leaving the Googleplex (2011), which critically examines Google’s labour practices. His work has been exhibited at MoMA New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Getty Museum, Centre Pompidou, LUMA Arles, MoMA PS1, and the Gwangju and Berlin Biennials. His films have screened at Sundance, the New York Film Festival, and IFFR. Wilson has lectured at Oxford University, Harvard University, Universität der Künste Berlin, and CalArts.