Event

Friday, 5 September 2025, 18:30 pm

Deep dives between science & fiction

Screening The Deep – Underwater Cinema

Film screening as part of the Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone exhibition
Free admission, no booking required


To accompany the exhibition Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone, Museum Tinguely presents a programme of underwater films. On four evenings, each with its own theme, visitors can look forward to scintillating cinematic deep dives between science and fiction, introduced and curated by the media theorist, curator and writer Matthias Wittmann (Basel/Mainz/Vienna).

 

Deep dives between science & fiction

Their names stand for the pioneering days of scuba diving, marine exploration and underwater filming: Hans Hass and Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Equally immersed in the deeps as in image-making, they transformed the submarine world into a stage for both science and fiction. They did this by developing, almost simultaneously, new diving and filming techniques that turned the spotlight onto the coral reefs encrusting the ocean floor.

 

18:30 pm: Part I
Unternehmen Xarifa (CH/BRD 1954, R: Hans Hass, 87 Min., DE)
20:30 pm: Part II
Le Monde du Silence / The Silent World (F 1956, R: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle, 85 Min., FR/EN Subs)

 

Snacks and drinks can be purchased during the event.

 

Also part of the event series:

 

19.09.2025, 18:30 pm
>>In the company of tentacles

 

03.10.2025, 18:30 pm
>> Deep Time – Oceans & Documentary Visions in a Changing Climate

 

17.10.2025, 18:30 pm
>> Inner Space – Freediving from Obsession to Meditation

 

 

Image caption: Filmstill Ama-San (PT/CH/JP 2016, R: Cláudia Varejão), Copyright ©Vinca Film, Mira Film


Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone
11 June - 2 November 2025

Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone

A core concern of French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière is how human beings inhabit the world and how the world, in turn, inhabits us. The comprehensive solo exhibition at Museum Tinguely presents photographs, sculptures, installations and new video works that deal with our relationship to Earth as a world of water—a liquidity that covers most of our planet with seas, lakes and ice, both habitat for a myriad of organisms and host to circulatory systems critical for the stability of our climate. Reflecting upon its flow and materiality, profundity and politics, its mundane and sacral dimensions, the solo show acts as a kaleidoscope, inviting us to dive deep.


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