0001 00:00:07:23 00:00:11:19 -Yes?//-Hi. My name is H.R. Giger.
0002 00:00:33:00 00:00:35:11 ...how can it be possible
0003 00:00:35:13 00:00:39:11 that a father, who knows//almost nothing about art,
0004 00:00:39:14 00:00:43:01 brought such an artist//into the world...
0005 00:01:23:12 00:01:25:18 Mostly it is like this:
0006 00:01:26:07 00:01:30:03 if you want to know, which are//the most influential families,
0007 00:01:30:05 00:01:32:14 than you’ve got to go//to the cemetery.
0008 00:01:32:16 00:01:36:07 What people, which families//you should make businesses with.
0009 00:01:36:09 00:01:39:23 Those with the largest gravestone//are the most influential ones.
0010 00:01:41:21 00:01:45:16 In fact, I have always immediately//put some daylight between myself
0011 00:01:45:18 00:01:51:07 and things which happened.//Even if someone died, or so...
0012 00:01:51:13 00:01:55:15 I do not have any problems concerning //this matter, also not with parents...
0013 00:01:57:24 00:02:01:02 I don‘t want to//know it so exactly...
0014 00:02:01:04 00:02:05:22 - nor with regard to diseases,//I have always said to my doctor:
0015 00:02:06:04 00:02:11:00 I do not want to know the what...//if something is or so...
0016 00:02:11:09 00:02:15:12 no, that can make you lose//courage to face life - totally...
0017 00:02:16:20 00:02:22:18 By noticing that something moves me//too much on the TV and so,
0018 00:02:23:13 00:02:27:17 if it really does not good to me,//then I simply don’t watch at it...
0019 00:06:33:00 00:06:38:05 The garbage can is mounted here,//and then it is pulled up like this...
0020 00:06:38:07 00:06:40:04 it comes inside,//and then it goes to the rear.
0021 00:06:40:06 00:06:43:08 Finally it stands like this,//and it is shaken like this.
0022 00:06:43:10 00:06:47:14 And the whole can be opened there//and spilled like this...
0023 00:06:47:16 00:06:50:11 In former times, 1973,
0024 00:06:50:13 00:06:54:17 I painted this object//and had also large paintings,
0025 00:06:54:19 00:06:57:18 they had 2 times 1.40 meters
0026 00:06:57:20 00:07:01:09 and there was a large exhibition//at the Bishofberger gallery,
0027 00:07:01:11 00:07:03:04 that was called "Passages"
0028 00:07:03:06 00:07:06:08 and they were shown there//for the first time... 1973.
0029 00:07:56:11 00:07:59:16 All paintings have been made//on this chair here,
0030 00:07:59:18 00:08:03:00 at the beginning it//still had a backrest...
0031 00:08:04:07 00:08:06:09 I‘ve welded it, you know...
0032 00:08:15:14 00:08:19:16 Yes, now it is a little better,//don’t you think?
0033 00:09:09:13 00:09:14:01 I am an admirer of Giger's work
0034 00:09:15:01 00:09:19:12 and I do believe//that what he makes -
0035 00:09:20:22 00:09:25:19 both that WHAT he makes//as well as that HOW he makes it -
0036 00:09:26:18 00:09:31:11 counts among the most important//creations of the fine-arts of our time...
0037 00:09:42:07 00:09:47:09 As far as I know,//there is at present nobody
0038 00:09:47:11 00:09:54:22 dealing the horrible//as affectionately as Giger does...
0039 00:09:55:11 00:10:02:16 I mean, Giger showed everything//what can be seen in this abyss,
0040 00:10:03:01 00:10:08:16 and now I ask myself more and more//often, when does Giger return?
0041 00:10:09:02 00:10:14:04 ...then he also says://"That’s infernally... good."
0042 00:10:15:03 00:10:17:12 It is beautiful what he paints,
0043 00:10:17:15 00:10:20:24 and the horror is//so beautifully presented
0044 00:10:21:01 00:10:23:08 that it even loses its fright.
0045 00:10:23:24 00:10:30:19 The airbrush painting, this//contactlessness thru the hand -
0046 00:10:30:21 00:10:32:16 it‘s like magic...
0047 00:10:33:04 00:10:36:01 This is an aesthetical aspect,
0048 00:10:36:08 00:10:40:22 which he brought into fine-arts//like no one else before him,
0049 00:10:40:24 00:10:42:22 and no one can do it as he does.
0050 00:10:42:24 00:10:46:03 I’ve tried, but I cannot do this.
0051 00:10:46:05 00:10:49:01 And it is also good,//that’s how it should be,
0052 00:10:49:03 00:10:54:21 that the art historians//also start to occupy themselfs
0053 00:10:54:23 00:10:57:18 with how unique Giger is, you know?
0054 00:10:57:24 00:11:02:17 Giger is a phenomenon,//also what his talent concerns...
0055 00:11:02:21 00:11:04:21 not everyone is so gifted.
0056 00:11:06:06 00:11:11:20 Oh well, it’s easy for me to talk like//this with my 75 years... "Mea culpa"
0057 00:11:31:00 00:11:38:04 There was a great fear//of nuclear war at that time,
0058 00:11:38:13 00:11:43:09 which reached its climax//in 1963 with the Cuba crisis.
0059 00:11:43:13 00:11:49:01 People there feared//that a nuclear war could break out.
0060 00:11:49:08 00:11:52:14 And as we knew from Hiroshima -
0061 00:11:52:19 00:11:57:19 those monstrosities//created genetically,
0062 00:11:58:00 00:12:01:18 Giger was very much impressed//and affected by this.
0063 00:12:01:20 00:12:06:18 And his first ink drawings//he called the Atomic Children...
0064 00:12:06:20 00:12:11:05 ...as if a nuclear war//would have been -
0065 00:12:11:09 00:12:17:22 amputated, monstrous, that could//originate from the radiation.
0066 00:12:17:24 00:12:19:19 1967.
0067 00:12:53:05 00:12:56:16 In former times//as he exhibited such things,
0068 00:12:57:15 00:13:04:16 people spat on windows of the//galleries or threw yogurt tubs,
0069 00:13:05:01 00:13:12:09 smeared dog excrement//on the showcases,
0070 00:13:12:18 00:13:15:07 because they were very shocked.
0071 00:13:17:18 00:13:19:08 It’s metal...
0072 00:13:19:10 00:13:21:17 It is surrealistic, you know.
0073 00:13:22:20 00:13:27:09 It is a lot of fantasy and//probably with a meaning behind it.
0074 00:13:27:11 00:13:31:00 I mean, he is doing things//noone else is doing.
0075 00:13:31:13 00:13:36:13 And if one man can inspire//the whole world like that,
0076 00:13:36:21 00:13:38:19 then you must be a genius.
0077 00:13:39:12 00:13:45:14 But, I’m sure there’s also a big//clan, who hate the work, you know.
0078 00:13:45:16 00:13:48:11 It’s always fifty-fifty this...
0079 00:15:24:06 00:15:28:16 I myself admire very much//the art of H.R. Giger,
0080 00:15:28:18 00:15:35:05 not because just of that supreme//technical skill that goes into the work,
0081 00:15:35:09 00:15:38:22 but just the depth//of his psychological insight,
0082 00:15:38:24 00:15:44:15 profound understanding of the psyche,//that goes way beyond anything
0083 00:15:44:17 00:15:47:08 that is known//in traditional psychiatry.
0084 00:15:47:10 00:15:51:11 I don’t know any other artist//who really portrays so accurately,
0085 00:15:51:13 00:15:57:17 so realistically the experiences//from the depth of the psyche.
0086 00:15:58:00 00:16:02:21 H.R. Giger’s art is usually//referred to as bio-mechanoid,
0087 00:16:03:05 00:16:07:12 which is the combination//of the mechanical and the biological.
0088 00:16:07:14 00:16:11:23 This is something that characterizes//what happened in the 20th century.
0089 00:16:12:00 00:16:17:23 More and more, the world//of technology, the world of machines,
0090 00:16:18:06 00:16:21:11 from mechanical//machines to computers,
0091 00:16:21:15 00:16:24:02 have been sort of//taking over our life
0092 00:16:24:04 00:16:26:23 and we’ve got so entangled//with this world
0093 00:16:27:00 00:16:29:00 that in a sense//we became victimized.
0094 00:16:29:02 00:16:33:00 And another aspect that you find//in his art is the demonic.
0095 00:16:33:02 00:16:37:21 And again you see a lot of the//demonic elements sort of coming up,
0096 00:16:37:23 00:16:41:05 you know from Charles Manson
0097 00:16:43:12 00:16:48:06 and LaVeys Satanic Church//in San Francisco to the terrorists.
0098 00:16:48:08 00:16:54:02 The activities certainly//have many kinds of satanic aspects.
0099 00:16:54:13 00:17:02:19 We have no clue how to understand this//really shadow aspects of humanity.
0100 00:17:30:15 00:17:36:22 The configuration that Giger//is born with the square from Pluto,
0101 00:17:36:24 00:17:41:02 which represents this dark//underworld, Dionysian energy.
0102 00:17:41:04 00:17:45:01 But in Giger’s case he has//two other things in his chart,
0103 00:17:45:03 00:17:47:23 which inflect this energy//in particular ways.
0104 00:17:48:00 00:17:54:13 On the one hand,//he has Venus opposite to Neptune.
0105 00:17:54:15 00:18:00:18 This brings out the artistic,//aesthetic dimension in a highly refined,
0106 00:18:00:20 00:18:02:10 almost exquisite way.
0107 00:18:02:12 00:18:05:08 This combination//is perfectly corresponding
0108 00:18:05:10 00:18:08:14 to these two different//configurations in his chart;
0109 00:18:08:16 00:18:11:20 the one linked//to Mars and Pluto and Saturn -
0110 00:18:11:22 00:18:17:07 that’s more aggressive, demonic,//violent, dark underworld quality.
0111 00:18:17:09 00:18:23:14 And then this more exquisite//aesthetically delicate, precise,
0112 00:18:23:16 00:18:27:13 also highly imaginative//but expressed through the art.
0113 00:18:27:15 00:18:32:10 The Sun and Mercury are both//in a square to Uranus.
0114 00:18:33:01 00:18:35:15 This, we find where there is often
0115 00:18:36:03 00:18:41:03 a certain element//of individualistic creative genius.
0116 00:18:41:05 00:18:46:18 Really something that Gallileo had it,//a rebel against the main streams;
0117 00:18:46:20 00:18:49:06 someone who does something//or is willing to do something
0118 00:18:49:08 00:18:52:08 that does not fit the conventional,//in this case,
0119 00:18:52:10 00:18:58:21 artistic conventions or cultural//structures of what to boo or not.
0120 00:19:32:14 00:19:36:24 ...then there are tubes missing//on the sides, coming out here.
0121 00:19:37:01 00:19:39:11 Then it should be//coloured better here,
0122 00:19:39:13 00:19:42:21 I’ve meant with a rag,//with black color on it,
0123 00:19:42:23 00:19:45:12 so that it goes into the grooves...
0124 00:19:45:14 00:19:50:14 And the whole here should be cast in//aluminum, so that, when it is in public,
0125 00:19:50:16 00:19:53:12 the people cannot tear//the fingers off...
0126 00:19:53:14 00:19:55:09 ...have you seen?
0127 00:19:56:22 00:19:59:15 Those long elegant fingers...?
0128 00:20:02:06 00:20:05:16 From above it looks good also...
0129 00:20:08:10 00:20:10:18 a strained thing...
0130 00:20:12:06 00:20:23:00 Last night, I have left//a burger in the oven for four hours...
0131 00:20:39:07 00:20:53:02 GARDEN
0132 00:20:53:11 00:20:56:09 Looking at this garden
0133 00:20:57:00 00:21:01:06 I remember when I was//here for the first time.
0134 00:21:01:14 00:21:06:04 I was trying to figure out://"Who is this guy?"
0135 00:21:15:03 00:21:19:17 Giger makes room//for other people's creativity.
0136 00:21:20:14 00:21:25:09 When you work with him,//you get a chance to create art.
0137 00:21:25:24 00:21:27:12 That's very rare.
0138 00:21:28:01 00:21:32:02 People believe that//Giger is difficult to work with.
0139 00:21:32:06 00:21:34:19 But he is the easiest//man to work with.
0140 00:21:34:24 00:21:39:20 He will listen to you,//if you have good ideas.
0141 00:21:40:08 00:21:45:17 Both of us may be a bit naive//and easy to take advantage of.
0142 00:21:47:14 00:21:51:13 A little quiet in there.//We're making a documentary.
0143 00:21:51:22 00:21:58:05 It's nice to hear woman's voice//coming from Giger's room.
0144 00:21:58:14 00:22:00:17 He's very happy now.
0145 00:23:58:13 00:24:02:09 My first familiarity//with Giger was through film.
0146 00:24:03:01 00:24:05:01 It was design work for Aliens.
0147 00:24:05:12 00:24:12:08 I think he cut off tabs//into hybridization.
0148 00:24:13:08 00:24:18:01 Into the sci-fi lexicon.
0149 00:24:18:06 00:24:24:01 I mean the bio-mechanical//aspects of what he's developed.
0150 00:24:24:22 00:24:28:23 Arthur C. Clarke's//and Ray Bradbury's ideas
0151 00:24:29:02 00:24:36:18 of how organisms may develop into//something that is more than human.
0152 00:24:37:06 00:24:41:20 Sci-fi influenced Giger//and vice versa.
0153 00:24:42:01 00:24:44:12 I think they are//intrinsically locked.
0154 00:24:44:16 00:24:51:20 Like in the Greek myths//with the Minotaur and Medusa.
0155 00:24:51:24 00:24:54:22 I think he offers another level
0156 00:24:55:01 00:25:00:20 of the part of our psyche//that needs those images.
0157 00:25:00:24 00:25:05:04 He's caught people's attention//and many eyes are looking at him.
0158 00:25:20:04 00:25:29:02 And I was shown the book -//Necronomicon, OK, in Los Angeles,
0159 00:25:29:04 00:25:31:13 in fact by O’Bannen//who brought it in
0160 00:25:31:15 00:25:35:03 and I nearly fell off the desk//and said „That’s it“.
0161 00:25:35:05 00:25:37:09 And why look further.
0162 00:25:37:11 00:25:40:18 And so that’s how I saw it.//It was as simple like that.
0163 00:25:40:20 00:25:44:01 I’ve never been so certain//about anything in my life.
0164 00:26:00:24 00:26:05:03 With Alien he scared the shit//out of everybody in this country.
0165 00:26:05:12 00:26:11:12 It wasn't a movie or creature//that was silly or unbelievable,
0166 00:26:11:16 00:26:16:10 it wasn't a silly green man//with a laser or a robot.
0167 00:26:16:14 00:26:21:03 You had somebody who made
0168 00:26:22:08 00:26:24:21 everybody's worst//nightmares come true.
0169 00:27:15:13 00:27:31:13 TATTOO
0170 00:27:32:23 00:27:39:18 My name's Vincent Castiglia.//I'm a New York tattoo artist.
0171 00:27:40:05 00:27:44:14 About five years ago//I did my first Giger tattoo.
0172 00:27:45:05 00:27:49:19 Approaching it was different//than any tattoo I had done.
0173 00:27:50:12 00:27:56:24 The preparation//was more exhausting.
0174 00:27:57:07 00:27:59:20 Studying the image,//making the stencil.
0175 00:28:00:06 00:28:03:04 Making sure that//everything was in place.
0176 00:28:03:08 00:28:06:07 And then the approach//in terms of execution.
0177 00:28:06:11 00:28:12:18 For many clients it's a way//of acquiring a sort of armor.
0178 00:28:13:05 00:28:19:08 Giger tattoos have taken//the greatest amount of time.
0179 00:28:19:17 00:28:26:22 Even when I'm putting//my absolute all into a project,
0180 00:28:27:01 00:28:31:18 a Giger tattoo//will take more time
0181 00:28:31:22 00:28:34:18 and require more effort.
0182 00:28:36:09 00:28:47:00 The Giger work became something//that I instantly clicked with.
0183 00:28:47:15 00:28:51:04 It was almost as if it was//supposed to be on me.
0184 00:28:51:24 00:28:55:24 I'm honored to wear his work.
0185 00:28:56:06 00:29:00:06 Even though it's on my body//and I see it all the time,
0186 00:29:00:11 00:29:05:16 I always find something new//about it when I look at it.
0187 00:29:05:21 00:29:10:06 I never get bored of looking at it.
0188 00:29:11:00 00:29:16:23 It's as if I just got the tattoo,//I'm happy with it all over again.
0189 00:31:22:18 00:31:25:09 I think that years//and years from now,
0190 00:31:25:11 00:31:27:21 when you and I, are long since gone,
0191 00:31:27:23 00:31:33:06 and the art historians of the world//start to talk about Giger.
0192 00:31:33:08 00:31:37:07 I think that he will//finally have been recognized
0193 00:31:37:10 00:31:41:11 as one of the true great//genius artists of his time.
0194 00:31:41:17 00:31:45:05 People can actually look at this//and envision what this is,
0195 00:31:45:07 00:31:49:21 despite the elements in it,//the details and the surface textures
0196 00:31:49:23 00:31:54:03 that takes you to other places.//But if you get beyond it
0197 00:31:55:02 00:31:59:03 and not even dwell on the fact//of what is he saying,
0198 00:31:59:05 00:32:01:00 of what‘s his statement about.
0199 00:32:01:02 00:32:04:17 I don’t think we need to dwell on//a statement with an artist like Giger.
0200 00:32:04:19 00:32:10:10 I think that for any aspects of//socio-political interjection in his work
0201 00:32:10:13 00:32:14:19 and elements of sexuality,//elements of the nightmares;
0202 00:32:14:21 00:32:19:20 that are all parts of who this//man is because of his uniqueness.
0203 00:32:20:04 00:32:25:04 The point is, why do we have to,//pigeon-hole an artist
0204 00:32:25:06 00:32:27:09 with such an original mind as Giger.
0205 00:32:27:11 00:32:32:22 We don’t have to, all we have to do,//is just to sit back and enjoy the work.
0206 00:32:45:06 00:32:49:13 I am George Petros and I am here//to talk about H.R. Giger.
0207 00:32:50:02 00:32:53:09 Maybe the most important//pop-artist of this era.
0208 00:32:53:11 00:32:59:03 Somebody who fuses sex, science//fiction and blood and goddess.
0209 00:32:59:18 00:33:04:22 He invented a thing of bio-mechanical,//the bio-mechanical universe;
0210 00:33:04:24 00:33:06:23 very, very terrifying.
0211 00:33:07:02 00:33:10:07 And then there were his//connections with rock culture,
0212 00:33:10:09 00:33:15:02 which was pretty incredible given//that he has only four album covers
0213 00:33:15:04 00:33:18:12 that he actually did//as commissioned work.
0214 00:33:18:14 00:33:24:09 Movies, to be in movies, this is//the way that art reaches people today.
0215 00:33:24:11 00:33:27:07 It’s not about//what’s hanging in the Louvre,
0216 00:33:27:09 00:33:30:10 it’s about what’s on//that Debbie Harry album cover.
0217 00:33:30:12 00:33:33:16 Americans who like him//don’t think to themselves -
0218 00:33:33:18 00:33:35:19 „Hey look at this Swiss artist!“
0219 00:33:35:21 00:33:41:01 His stuff blends so seamlessly//into the American experience.
0220 00:33:41:16 00:33:44:05 That he is just one of us.
0221 00:34:08:14 00:34:11:05 People say://"The work frightens me."
0222 00:34:11:23 00:34:16:16 I don't understand it.
0223 00:34:16:21 00:34:19:04 It's not frightening.
0224 00:34:20:02 00:34:23:20 Also, there is nothing//accidental about it.
0225 00:34:24:11 00:34:29:09 He knows exactly what he is doing.//He doesn't throw an egg against
0226 00:34:29:13 00:34:33:18 the wall and say://"That's how I feel.
0227 00:34:33:22 00:34:38:20 To have a vision//without the ability to do it well
0228 00:34:39:21 00:34:45:22 gives us 98% of the artists//that are doing art today.
0229 00:35:06:17 00:35:12:08 Giger is a force of nature.
0230 00:35:12:12 00:35:16:09 You can call it//creativity or persona.
0231 00:35:16:15 00:35:24:07 But in the culture of today he is//an incredible force of nature.
0232 00:35:24:18 00:35:29:22 More than a sum of//any art project he's ever done.
0233 00:35:30:06 00:35:33:13 The art world has//a very short attention span.
0234 00:35:33:17 00:35:39:15 And everyone's given//their fifteen minutes of fame.
0235 00:35:40:00 00:35:46:12 He will get them because//he has done substantial work.
0236 00:35:46:20 00:35:54:13 It's a multi-national,//multi-billion dollar industry
0237 00:35:55:06 00:35:59:03 of auction houses,//of the art market,
0238 00:35:59:07 00:36:02:16 of the collectors, of the critics.
0239 00:36:03:04 00:36:05:24 Non of them have heard of Giger.
0240 00:36:06:03 00:36:09:19 And the few who have//couldn't give a toss about him.
0241 00:36:09:24 00:36:13:03 It's a beautiful//moment for Giger's career
0242 00:36:13:07 00:36:17:15 because it's a point of//incredible irrelevance.
0243 00:36:18:01 00:36:26:11 There are so many ways//he could have reinvented himself.
0244 00:36:26:15 00:36:28:13 And he refuses reinvention.
0245 00:36:28:17 00:36:36:22 He's consistently following the//singular vision with blinders on.
0246 00:36:37:09 00:36:42:18 And it's going to//sustain itself more
0247 00:36:42:22 00:36:48:22 than careers that hit//many different generations.
0248 00:36:49:01 00:36:55:05 He's going to be a signifier//for something which is timeless.
0249 00:37:17:04 00:37:20:18 Here we are in 2005//talking about Giger.
0250 00:37:21:05 00:37:23:18 It’s like he’s created//his own cliché.
0251 00:37:23:20 00:37:26:05 I mean, he has//almost become a genre.
0252 00:37:26:07 00:37:29:22 He’s so distinctive in his style.
0253 00:37:29:24 00:37:33:23 The one of the most notorious//was the H.R. Giger cover
0254 00:37:34:00 00:37:37:02 for the Dead Kennedys’ album//Frankenchrist
0255 00:37:37:04 00:37:44:19 which was literally//a wall of penises and derrieres.
0256 00:37:50:13 00:37:54:09 They came down hard//on the Dead Kennedys’,
0257 00:37:54:11 00:37:58:24 and it was a big notorious//court case, back and forth.
0258 00:37:59:01 00:38:04:10 Giger inadvertently with//the Dead Kennedy’s full support,
0259 00:38:05:04 00:38:07:02 put and end to the band.
0260 00:38:07:04 00:38:12:02 The album cover, I guess will remain//one of those notorious milestones
0261 00:38:12:04 00:38:14:13 in censorship in rock history.
0262 00:38:40:19 00:38:43:20 Giger knows some about the occult//and things like that,
0263 00:38:43:22 00:38:48:15 and he incorporates some occult//images and ideas in his artwork.
0264 00:38:48:17 00:38:53:19 Many satanists and occult people//can enjoy his artwork, certainly.
0265 00:38:53:21 00:38:55:19 It has that dark quality,
0266 00:38:55:21 00:39:00:01 but I don’t think Giger would like//to be called a satanist himself.
0267 00:39:00:03 00:39:01:23 I think that he does not//like that label.
0268 00:39:02:00 00:39:04:01 It’s been a very important//part of my life.
0269 00:39:04:03 00:39:07:09 In my house//I have his art everywhere.
0270 00:39:07:11 00:39:09:20 I have a Harkonnen chair//in my library.
0271 00:39:09:22 00:39:12:13 And I have his sculptures//and his jewellery.
0272 00:39:12:15 00:39:14:03 It’s been a profound//influence on me,
0273 00:39:14:05 00:39:17:02 but it’s not really something//I can put into words.
0274 00:39:17:04 00:39:21:18 I guess, when I am alone sitting//there and looking at the paintings,
0275 00:39:21:20 00:39:25:14 it’s sort of like//a peaceful dreamworld.
0276 00:39:25:16 00:39:28:23 When you’re looking//at his air-brushed art,
0277 00:39:29:00 00:39:32:00 the people think it is//so disturbing or horrific.
0278 00:39:32:02 00:39:35:06 The people in the artwork//look like they are at peace,
0279 00:39:35:08 00:39:38:21 maybe even asleep,//it’s very dreamlike, so...
0280 00:39:38:23 00:39:42:09 I don’t know,//that’s very peaceful and dark.
0281 00:39:59:12 00:40:03:06 The best way I can describe Giger://he is his art.
0282 00:40:03:12 00:40:07:24 When I first met him, I really did’t//think he was part of this world.
0283 00:40:08:01 00:40:10:16 He’s very...
0284 00:40:11:07 00:40:16:10 He uses artisticness//and everything about him,
0285 00:40:16:24 00:40:19:06 you see where the art comes from,
0286 00:40:19:08 00:40:24:11 you begin to understand//where he gets his visions from.
0287 00:40:40:24 00:40:43:13 I don't know how he looks at it
0288 00:40:43:17 00:40:48:11 but to me music and his art//are closely related.
0289 00:40:49:24 00:40:55:12 His art lends itself perfectly//for musical interpretation.
0290 00:40:55:16 00:40:58:23 I know he's a jazz enthusiast
0291 00:40:59:15 00:41:04:13 and he has provided art//for others than heavy metal bands.
0292 00:41:05:01 00:41:08:05 Switzerland is//a secluded island in the world.
0293 00:41:08:20 00:41:11:09 Because of our economic situation,
0294 00:41:12:08 00:41:15:10 few people go//into art professionally.
0295 00:41:15:14 00:41:17:00 It's a huge risk
0296 00:41:17:04 00:41:22:07 and even a common job here//provides you with amazing salary.
0297 00:41:22:11 00:41:28:02 Nobody longs to enter//a life of risk and uncertainty,
0298 00:41:28:06 00:41:33:21 full of inability to plan//your life financially.
0299 00:41:34:14 00:41:38:13 In Switzerland you work//in a bank or insurance company.
0300 00:41:38:17 00:41:42:05 Nobody becomes an artist//because it means
0301 00:41:42:09 00:41:46:15 tremendous financial instability.
0302 00:41:47:04 00:41:50:19 So the few artists that//actually exist in Switzerland,
0303 00:41:50:23 00:41:54:03 I mean professional artists,
0304 00:41:55:22 00:41:57:23 tend to be very unusual.
0305 00:41:58:04 00:42:03:17 You have to be much more//unusual to become an artist here.
0306 00:42:10:21 00:42:13:06 We met in one of//the galleries in New York
0307 00:42:13:08 00:42:15:14 right after he got the Academy Award
0308 00:42:15:16 00:42:21:03 and he was so nice//and so easy to get along with.
0309 00:42:21:16 00:42:26:24 And the opportunity arose where//I was going to make a solo record,
0310 00:42:27:04 00:42:32:02 and so we asked him if he would be//interested and he said - „yeah!“
0311 00:43:06:09 00:43:09:20 In a sense it really//wasn’t a collaboration,
0312 00:43:10:07 00:43:17:05 it was him, having//an idea and us saying - yes;
0313 00:43:18:07 00:43:21:07 „Yes, thank you,//thank you very much.“
0314 00:43:31:02 00:43:34:17 It’s almost like you could see//the things around his head,
0315 00:43:34:19 00:43:37:04 just sort of happening,
0316 00:43:37:06 00:43:40:17 like some kind of computer thing//happening around his head.
0317 00:44:06:03 00:44:12:21 The surface value is all very simple//and calm but underneath is this,
0318 00:44:13:11 00:44:18:13 this power,//this strobeing power that’s going on,
0319 00:44:18:15 00:44:21:10 this control, this force of control,
0320 00:44:22:00 00:44:25:15 the placid pastoral landscape
0321 00:44:25:18 00:44:28:23 and underneath this,//thing that’s going on, so...
0322 00:44:29:00 00:44:33:17 I mean, he is very naturally,//very Swiss in that respect.
0323 00:46:04:08 00:46:06:07 It’s strange,//because he has a sister,
0324 00:46:06:09 00:46:09:21 and - as they say -//men who have a sister
0325 00:46:10:13 00:46:15:04 do not usually speak about such//fascinated picture of women
0326 00:46:15:07 00:46:17:02 as he does...
0327 00:46:17:04 00:46:21:04 ...and what he has - very strongly//- is a dream being,
0328 00:46:22:05 00:46:28:19 you can see it in the paintings,//they are all bright and beautiful.
0329 00:46:28:21 00:46:32:23 It is rather the male aspect,//which appears morbid or devilish.
0330 00:46:33:00 00:46:39:20 Women are rather//fairylike or majestic.
0331 00:46:39:23 00:46:43:16 Even if their appearance//is a little diabolic,
0332 00:46:43:18 00:46:46:12 they have still//an unbelievable beauty...