RAW BEAUTY
Directed by Hervé Nisic and Michel Beretti
Documentary | 2009 | 63 min
Produced by Louise Productions & Atopic, Paris
It is fascinating to observe the immense influence the artworks of psychologically ill people have had on the course of the 20th century art history.
Artistic icons such as Jean Tinguely, Paul Klee or Jean Dubuffet were clearly interested in the representatives of the Art Brut, in the subtle line between the imaginary and obsession, dreams, pain and illness, these insidious evils that emerge unseen from our unconscious.
With the Bern hospital Waldau as a starting point, which possesses a large collection of works by schizophrenic artists, filmmakers Hervé Nisic and Michel Beretti investigate the ongoing fascination for Art-Brut-artists.
Contributors include Michel Thévoz, founder of the Collection de l’Art Brut de Lausanne, the sculptor Armin Heusser, Daniel Baumann, Curator of the Adolf-Wölfli-Stiftung, as well as the artists Bernhard Luginbühl, Daniel Spoerri and Bernhard Gahl.
Directors : Hervé Nisic and Michel Beretti
Writers : Michel Beretti and Hervé Nisic
DOP : Jean-Jacques Bouhon
Editing : Hervé Nisic
Sound editing and mix : Patrick Becker
Production :
Louise Productions
Atopic
Coproduced by :
RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
Producers :
Elisabeth Garbar
Heinz Dill
Christophe Gougeon
