PLAY WITH THE DEVIL – BECOMING ZEAL & ARDOR
Switzerland 2023 – Director: Olivier Joliat, Matthias Willi – Original language: English, German, Swiss German – Subtitles: English, German – Length: 72 min.
“Are you the only person to combine slave songs, field hollers and chain gang chants with black metal? – “Yes!” The Swiss musician Manuel Gagneux came up with this music for one of his experiments in genre mixing. And then suddenly: bam! The breakthrough to success. A film about music, Christianisation vs Satanisation, primitive messing around, success, business and humour as an attitude to get by. Morgane Remter
Biography
Olivier Joliat
The Swiss journalist and book author is himself a drummer with the Lombego Surfers and has already worked on various film projects. PLAY WITH THE DEVIL - BECOMING ZEAL & ARDOR is the first feature film co-directed by Olivier Joliat and Matthias Willi.
Matthias Willi
Born in 1975 in Switzerland, he first trained as a photographer in a studio for advertising photography and at the Basel School of Design. He has been working as a freelance photographer since 2004 and increasingly on video works since 2013.
Filmography
TONY, YOU ROCK, CH 2016, 40 Min.
Note
This film deals with racism.
Nominated for the DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb
Intense stories and the unusual on one's own doorstep: the competition presents films that deal with people and topics in German-speaking countries. The VIKTOR DOK.deutsch Competition is endowed with 7,500 euros. The prize sponsor is Sky.
Writer: Olivier Joliat, Matthias Willi. Camera: Matthias Willi. Sound: Olivier Joliat. Editing: Christian Büttiker. Music: Manuel Gagneux. Production: soap factory GmbH. Producer: Frank Matter. Co-Producers: Ko-Produktion: RecycledTv AG, Madeleine Corbat & Peter Guyer.
