Films by Nicole Vögele

Germany 2013, 21 min
by Nicole Vögele

A young woman sets out to let go. I set out to let go, let go of everyday struggles and shambles. A ramble into the innards of the mountains and of my thoughts. Encounters and occurances disturb the flow. But disturbances are welcome. They make you forget that you are lost. To walk away against everything, to become one with the unevenness. But there is this paradox of walking away: in the end, it's all about arriving. And a bit, just a bit perhaps, about learning to let go. An experimental moun

Germany 2013, 60 min
by Nicole Vögele

A station in thick fog, tracks that disappear into the white mists and a figure, waiting. In between patches of mist a fox appears, looking for a scent in the wind. And then: bluster, shimmer, silence. And more fog. Views of nature merge with brief encounters. People living in their own worlds: an astronomer who, looking to the sky, would welcome the idea that we might not be alone in the universe. A musician hoping to meet the right woman one day. And a stableman for whom the world has always t

Germany 2012, 40 min
by Nicole Vögele

Mrs Loosli is old. Her husband died many years ago; her children have moved out. She spends her days alone on her farm at the foot hills of the Swiss Alps. Being alone is her ultimate life task. Mrs Loosli knits. She keeps in shape on her treadmill. She listens to the radio. She fires up the oven and fetches wood. She bakes an apple pie for herself. She spends time with her dog. A young film crew watches an old lady’s everyday life and documents how each morning she braces herself against her li