{"id":8332,"date":"2021-01-12T23:06:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T22:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/?p=8332"},"modified":"2021-01-12T23:12:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T22:12:38","slug":"outland-documentary-in-progress-a-non-conformists-refuge-called-ticino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/outland-documentary-in-progress-a-non-conformists-refuge-called-ticino\/","title":{"rendered":"OUTLAND, Documentary in Progress, A Non-Conformists’ Refuge called Ticino"},"content":{"rendered":"

OUTLAND : A documentary in the making. Ticino, Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland, is an unlikely refuge for non-conformists from all over the world who eventually settled there. The documentary traces some of these individuals in the present and near past.<\/p>\n

Ticino is a strange canton, both praised as a sunny state and snubbed as a banana republic, different to the rest of Switzerland in many ways.<\/p>\n

The valleys nestled between Gotthard and Chiasso seem like a parallel world. Over a hundred years or more, they became a refuge of sorts for a number of interesting characters. By the time Europe\u00a0took on its present form, after a great cultural growth spurt into modernity and two world wars, Ticino was known as a haven for wealthy German-speaking Swiss, German nationals and even Italian tax fugitives.<\/p>\n

But what about the Ticino of today? Have the demographics changed and if so to what extent?<\/p>\n

On the broader timeline, Ticino became a popular refuge for those who rejected the mainstream bourgeois life. Something about the place compelled these non-conformists of Western society to view it as a suitable home. To them, Ticino was more than the mountains or nice weather. The region had come to symbolise a state of mind.<\/p>\n

“Outland” attempts to characterise this state of mind and find a nuanced answer to the questions : why Italian-speaking Switzerland? What is it about Ticino that invites such creative non-conformists\u00a0to see it as a home?<\/p>\n

Unknown to many, the road was paved over time by many anarchists, reformers, thinkers and creatives.<\/p>\n

We explore links to the past with Dada founders Emmy Hennings and Hugo Ball, whose curious and ultimately tragic fate in Ticino will echo far into the future.<\/p>\n

Production: Ventura Film
\nAuthor and Director: Michael Schindhelm
\nCinematography: Yawen Yeo-Schindhelm
\nSound: Georgy Goncharov
\nMusic and performance: J\u00fcrg Kienberger
\nComposition: Claudio Bucher
\nEditor: Stefano Cravero<\/p>\n

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OUTLAND : A documentary in the making. Ticino, Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland, is an unlikely refuge for non-conformists from all over the world who eventually settled there. The documentary traces some of these individuals in the present and near past. Ticino is a strange canton, both praised as a sunny state and snubbed as a […]<\/p>\n Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[215,164,213,214,212,211,209],"class_list":["post-8332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays-news","tag-dada","tag-documentary","tag-emmy-hennings","tag-hugo-ball","tag-iphone","tag-outland","tag-ticino"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8332"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8515,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions\/8515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}