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portrait Alain Tanner, Switzerland

Beginning in the late 1960s, Geneva born Swiss director Alain Tanner created a singular body of work that echoes the visual style of the French New Wave while thematically reflecting the era’s spirit of nonconformity. The films include Charles mort ou vif (1968), The Salamander (1971) and Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976), masterpieces scripted with English critic John Berger (Ways of Seeing) that explore how we negotiate capitalist society - often in ways that r…