The Gotthard-Project
Documentary ´26, WDR/arte, 2007
About the Film
On the wind-swept heights of the Gotthard Pass, the film crew accompanies the Swiss conceptual artist Jean Odermatt to one of his projects: Located above the town of Andermatt, he has transformed a former bunker complex in an underground adventure hotel named ” La Claustra “.
The Swiss conceptual artist and photographer Jean Odermatt has been intensively involved with the Gotthard for over 25 years. A place that does not really exist, he says, because there is no mountain that is so called, there is not even a village that bears this name. The Gotthard is just a pass, which has gained a high profile in the 50s through the construction of the tunnel. It’s a very strange place, says Jean Odermatt, who leaves no one emotionally untouched.
Credits
| Script/Director: | Katja Duregger |
| Film editing: | Volker Gehrke |
| Director of Photography: | Thomas Kutschker |
| Sound: | André Pfennig |
| Head of production: | Connie Kellers |
| Line Producer: | Anahita Nazemi |
| Producer: | Gerd Haag |
| Commissioning Editor: | Andrea Ernst, WDR/Arte |
| Duration: | 26 Min. |
| Year of production: | 2007 |