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Loba Loba · 2021

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A filmic hymn

Loba Loba (praise)

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Director: Anka Schmid

Prod: go between films | Luc Schaedler
Song: Corin Curschellas

Distribution: Xenix Filmdistribution

CH 2021 | 6 mins. | Dialect (en, de, fr ST)
Release: Winter 2021 |Spring 2022

A filmic hymn of praise resounds in a modern concrete sculpture in the Grisons Alps.

In the experimental short documentary LOBA LOBA (2021) the singer Corin Curschellas respectfully brings the old mountain tradition of alpine blessing into the present day. Her funnel call resounds in Matias Spesha’s modern concrete sculpture OGNA, which in its rawness fits provocatively into the Grisons landscape. The song resounds as an echo on an alp in Vals, becomes a hymn of praise, a contemporary evocation of nature.

→ Chiayi Intl. Art Doc Film Festival, Taiwan (March 2022)
Section: Swiss Arts At Heights

→ Videoex – Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zu rich (May 2022)
Section: Swiss Fokus Anka Schmid

→ Forthcoming:
Filmfest Malans 2022, Switzerland (August 2022)

Statement Anka Schmid (director)

«In Curschellas’ funnel call I sense a strong archaic power and at the same time a current urgency. Especially today, when tens of thousands of young people take to the streets and fight for a resource-saving future, this praise is very topical. It is important to me to locate the call of nature locally and to give it a modern face.

In this respect, my filmic translation is neither an ethnographic documentation nor is it folk kitsch, but an independent audio-visual work, which wants to transfer the urgency of this “natural evocation” to the audience and encourages them to think and participate.»

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