DARK STAR: H.R. Giger‘s World

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«Dark Star» is a film, which is interesting even for those who do not like the work of Giger. ZÜRITIPP

On Thursday, 10th of December, the Embassy of Switzerland in Armenia will screen a biographical documentary film by Belinda Sallin (2014, Switzerland) - „Dark Star: H.R.Giger‘s World“(95 min) at the Mirzoyan Library, at 20.00 hrs. The film was made in honour of a famous and extraordinary Swiss artist, who has won an Oscar prize for the design of „Alien.“

Hans Rudolf Giger, the hero of the film is an internationally acclaimed and controversial painter, sculptor, architect and designer. He feels at home in places we would flee from and lives his life among the things we fear. Throughout his life, H.R. Giger had inhabited the world of uncanny, a dark universe on the brink of many an abyss. It was the only way this amiable,modest and humorous man was able to keep his fears in check. Giger was merely the bearer of dark messages, charting our nightmares, drafting maps of our subconscious and molding our primal fears.

The stars of the film apart from H.R. Giger himself are Leslie Barany, Sandra Beretta, and Mia Bonzanigo, who accompanied H.R. Giger throughout his professional life.

Belinda Sallin, 1967 is a Swiss film director, the author of many documentary films, owns a Production Company „Lucky GMBH“, initially specialized in German studies and worked as a journalist, has two sons and lives in Zürich.