MARCEL LANGENEGGER TAKES ON THE HOLLYWOOD MACHINE —AND LIVES TO TELL
Last spring, award winning commercial director Marcel Langenegger’s Hollywood directorial debut was released. Deception, a psychological thriller, stars Hugh Jackman, Ewan Mcgregor and Michelle Williams. Dealing with big name stars, fluctuating budgets and the whims of studio executives, the first time director was beset with all kinds of obstacles. Nevertheless Marcel Langenegger lives to tell…
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“Energy is the most pressing issue. If you have clean abundant energy, you can solve all today's problems: You can turn the Sahara into a garden, you can desalinate salt water, you can pump it wherever you want to have it. Cheap energy can develop the world. A barrel of oil -- one hundred and fifty-nine liters — contains the physical capacity of what twelve men would have to work for over a year. It's really the key to our time."
This is Basil Gelpke, and that’s the optimistic part. Here’s the flip side: Our global civilization is dependent on one particular energy source, and if we run out of it we’re in trouble. That time might be soon. It might be now.
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Basel, Switzerland in the 70s, Silvio Caduff, artist and owner of the Erste Mini-Galerie had a little advertising trick to lure passersby into his gallery space: he would remove the menus inside menu boxes outside of restaurants and replace them with paintings—so that people walking by could "watch" the paintings that were in the gallery. The curious invention no doubt formed a deep impression on his young nephew, Giacun. As we fast forward nearly thirty years later, Giacun Caduff, now an indie-filmmaker living in Los Angeles, has come up with a similar device to help promote a different sort of medium—short film.
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Last spring, award winning commercial director Marcel Langenegger’s Hollywood directorial debut was released. Deception, a psychological thriller, stars Hugh Jackman, Ewan Mcgregor and Michelle Williams. Dealing with big name stars, fluctuating budgets and the whims of studio executives, the first time director was beset with all kinds of obstacles. Nevertheless Marcel Langenegger lives to tell…
“Energy is the most pressing issue. If you have clean abundant energy, you can solve all today's problems: You can turn the Sahara into a garden, you can desalinate salt water, you can pump it wherever you want to have it. Cheap energy can develop the world. A barrel of oil -- one hundred and fifty-nine liters — contains the physical capacity of what twelve men would have to work for over a year. It's really the key to our time."
Basel, Switzerland in the 70s, Silvio Caduff, artist and owner of the Erste Mini-Galerie had a little advertising trick to lure passersby into his gallery space: he would remove the menus inside menu boxes outside of restaurants and replace them with paintings—so that people walking by could "watch" the paintings that were in the gallery. The curious invention no doubt formed a deep impression on his young nephew, Giacun. As we fast forward nearly thirty years later, Giacun Caduff, now an indie-filmmaker living in Los Angeles, has come up with a similar device to help promote a different sort of medium—short film.
