go between films

Film Production

The production company go between films was founded in 2001 by filmmaker and visual anthropologist Luc Schaedler.

Background

The starting point—and driving force—behind Luc Schaedler’s work as a filmmaker and producer is his many years of travel and research across Asia. Out of this have grown the documentaries MADE IN HONG KONG (1997), ANGRY MONK (2005), WATERMARKS (2013) and A LONG WAY HOME (2018), which have been screened in competition at leading international film festivals, including: Sundance (Nomination Grand Jury Award); San Francisco (Golden Gate Award nomination); Busan IFF; Locarno IFF (Semaine de la critique); DOK Leipzig; Vancouver IFF; Montréal – Festival du Nouveau Cinéma; DOK.fest Munich…

The films — rooted in the tradition of Visual Anthropology — share a central question: what do historical and political events set in motion in people’s lives—and what does that mean for their everyday reality and their view of the future? Schaedler’s work does not treat social upheaval as an abstract idea, but as lived experience, where individual biographies, hopes and fractures come into view.

Especially where political decisions and economic change shift entire worlds, he is drawn to the subtle, often overlooked transitions: how does history become tangible in personal experience? How does a city, a community, a moral compass change—and how do people speak about it when historical and political shocks reach into private life and inscribe themselves on the body?

Reflections

«The beginning of my engagement with Hong Kong, Tibet and China now goes back more than thirty years. Three profound historical moments from that time have never let go of me: the oppressive years before the handover of Hong Kong back to China in 1997, the uprising in Lhasa in 1988, and the brutal suppression of the democracy movement in 1989 in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. Since then, I have travelled to China repeatedly. I have followed the country’s economic development, and the political and social upheavals that came with it, with equal parts fascination and disquiet.» Luc Schaedler