Synopse
DOCUMENTARY Art or vandalism? Since 1977, the Sprayer of Zurich has been forcing this question. A sensitive portrait showing Naegeli’s legacy and a homage to the Utopian. His graffiti are minimalistic, but with great aesthetic power. Harald Naegeli used them in the 1970s to criticize Zurich’s monotonous cityscape, along with politics and our treatment of the environment. He spent time in jail and lived for many years in Düsseldorf. Since 2020, the 81-year old has been back in Zurich – and during the first lockdown sprayed more than 50 danses macabres. The canton prosecuted him, the city awarded him a major art prize.
Regie
NATHALIE DAVID (*1963) studied art at the Villa Arson in Nice and the HFBK art school in Hamburg. In 2009, she founded Pitchoun Production and has since then made several art documentaries.
Info
Original Title: Harald Naegeli - Der Sprayer von Zürich
International Title: Harald Naegeli - The Zurich Sprayer
Category: Documentary feature
Section: Kaleidoskop
Version & Subtitles: Swiss German, German OV with German subtitles
Director: Nathalie David
Cast/Protagonists: Harald Naegeli, Benjamin von Blomberg, Christoph Doswald, Regine Helbling, Markus Kägi, Corine Mauch, Pfarrer Christoph Sigrist, Susanne Stamm, Hans Martin Ulbrich, Mirjam Varadinis
Production country: Germany, Switzerland
Year of Production: 2021
Length: 97 min
Producer: Peter Spoerri
Production company: PS Film GmbH
Sound: Jean-Pierre Gerth, Julian Joseph, Kurt Human
Editor: Nathalie David, Andrew Bird
Music: Andrina Bollinger, Sophie Hunger
co-production company: PITCHOUNPRODUCTION
Distributor: missingFILMs
