Kenwin

Summary The novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman), built a Bauhaus-style style structure (Kenwin) that doubled as a home and film studio, overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland. At the time she was in a relationship with the English filmmaker Kenneth Macpherson and American poet Hilda Doolittle (H.D.). The protagonists were involved in the intellectual circles that included James Joyce and Sigmund Freud. They also founded and published an early film journal "Close-up" which among other things introduced the theories of Sergei Eisenstein to the western world. This Film explores this history using historical and contemporary images of Kenwin along with readings from the letters and memoirs of the protagonists including H.D.'s daughter Perdita. View more details

Kenwin

Directed : Véronique Goël

Written : Véronique Goël

Stars : Moïra Day Anne Lefèvre Michèle Millner Judi Hall

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Genres : Biography Documentary

Release date : Aug 7, 1996

Countries of origin : Switzerland

Official sites : Director's official site Swiss Films page

Language : English

Filming locations : Burier sur Vevey, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland

Production companies : Scherzo films k+w+h

Summary The novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman), built a Bauhaus-style style structure (Kenwin) that doubled as a home and film studio, overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland. At the time she was in a relationship with the English filmmaker Kenneth Macpherson and American poet Hilda Doolittle (H.D.). The protagonists were involved in the intellectual circles that included James Joyce and Sigmund Freud. They also founded and published an early film journal "Close-up" which among other things introduced the theories of Sergei Eisenstein to the western world. This Film explores this history using historical and contemporary images of Kenwin along with readings from the letters and memoirs of the protagonists including H.D.'s daughter Perdita. View more details

Details

Genres : Biography Documentary

Release date : Aug 7, 1996

Countries of origin : Switzerland

Official sites : Director's official site Swiss Films page

Language : English

Filming locations : Burier sur Vevey, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland

Production companies : Scherzo films k+w+h

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